Kobe Bryant and a business associate have a running bet on the staying power of the pop stars Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.
The prevailing culture for successful businesses now is a management structure that is flat, where the most junior associate has a chance to develop the next big idea.
There are also people who associate having a female child as suffering, or a child with a genetic variation such as albinism, or a child with a different sexual preference.
The monks at Holy Cross Monastery (where I am an associate) have a practice of praying in silence, amid the tolling of a single bell, when the execution of someone on death row is about to take place.
Dr. Resh and his associates had a contract with the facility to perform those implants.
And was not destined to be; for, across the wide Pacific Logan and his associates had a personal Pearl Harbor awaiting them.
Ah, but the accountant and his associates had a deal for them.
It was in the early '80s, and one of my associates had a boyfriend who died of AIDS.
At Sears, Mr. Lewis said, "we are building a culture where every associate has an opportunity to excel, if they're willing to put in the work.
But at neighborhood Ace stores, he said, "the owner-associate has a much more personal relationship with consumers.
