Word: lincolns
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BOOK Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon "A historical fiction about the couple who were in the box at Ford's Theatre with Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. It's a sad story...
...first glance, Lincoln Electric, the $1 billion Cleveland, Ohio, maker of arc-welding equipment, seems like every other U.S. corporation trying to weather the current economic downturn--heartless. It is slashing overtime, cutting temps and applying an elaborate rating system to assess employee performance. But no matter how bad things get, or how low they score, workers at Lincoln won't flunk...
...never have to wake up in the morning and wonder if I've got a job," says foreman Bob Knapik, 41. For almost a half-century, it's been that way at Lincoln's headquarters--guaranteed lifetime employment for all full-time workers who have been there at least three years. And that doesn't mean, by the way, that Lincoln is some Rust Belt relic of the 1950s. Thanks to its fabled incentive-compensation plan--which, instead of an hourly salary, pays assembly-line workers based on how much they produce, plus a year-end bonus (hence the grading...
...Lincoln's anger subsided, and he repealed the policy...
...anyway, Lincoln was right. Blood cannot restore blood...