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...increase training, strengthen teamwork and lengthen time horizons, American corporations are going to have to adopt management practices that dramatically cut turnover rates. If America wants a loyal labor force interested in raising productivity, layoffs have to become the last, rather than the first, resort when a firm is facing difficult economic times. Incentives will have to be structured to give the biggest economic prizes to those...
...Crohn's disease, although researchers suspect that a virus or a flaw in the body's immune system may be involved. A cure is similarly elusive. In attempting to control the disease, doctors use drugs that suppress inflammation and the immune system. In severe cases, they must resort to surgery, cutting away diseased portions of bowel and then reconnecting the ends or creating a hole through the abdomen so wastes can be collected in a pouch. But even with such drastic measures, the disease may recur, necessitating more extensive operations...
Hope is conspicuously alive at Summerland, the $25 million seaside resort built during the civil war. Though many of its 151 rooms are empty, the hotel has kept on a staff of more than 300, in the expectation that better days must surely follow. Summerland's bar, restaurant and two outdoor pools are still crowded. Said Sheik Khaled Saab, Summerland's part owner and general manager: "We Beirutis have the will to live. We've become immune to many things. We know if the artillery is 'incoming' or 'outgoing.' We can even tell...
...survey found that only 14 per cent of tenants responding to the survey lived in apartments with storm windows: 85 per cent of the tenants reported that their windows are not weathertight: 67 per cent said they had to open windows during the heating season as a "last resort" to control excessive heat: and 28 per cent said they could not turn off their radiators when the heat grew excessive
Tucked picturesquely into the western slopes of the Alps, the lakeside resort of Talloires, France, features three-star gastronomy and a timeless mountain calm. But the distinguished assembly that gathered there last week had no interest in sightseeing, and lost little time in shattering the Alpine quiet by speaking up loudly in defense of world press freedom...