Some large firms in the US have come under fire for their reluctance to repatriate their foreign earnings as they could face a top tax rate of 35%.
Nothing is perfect – there's fire, there's reluctance, there's this and that, things get lost".
Head of personnel at Volkswagen (VW), a German car giant, he is renowned for his reluctance to fire people and his willingness to rustle up ingenious alternatives to lay-offs.
His reluctance to fire or demote in the manner of Khodorkovsky, and in the manner desired by foreign investors, is an almost endearing holdover from those times, when it was acceptable to imprison a man for reading Solzhenitsyn but inconceivable to fire him for sleeping on the job.
Some critics contended that Blair's race was a major factor in his hiring and in The New York Times initial reluctance to fire him.
Although Brian Epstein's publicly stated reluctance to fire Pete quickly became a matter of record in the early biographies, he had found Mona Best to be the cause of mounting aggravation.
And their reluctance to fire Wall Street executives, even after giving GM's chief the heave-ho, gives added weight to the perception that DC loves Wall Street fatcats.
Undergirding the council's difficult work in the coming weeks are two unfinished pieces of business on the part of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's administration: Seven years into his tenure, there still is no consensus about what constitutes the city's core services, and there is no clear repudiation of the city's habit of hiring in good times and its reluctance to fire in bad.
And, strangely for a self-professed Buddhist, he did not embrace environmental concerns, with Apple coming under fire from Greenpeace for its reluctance to produce easily recyclable products.
The finale focuses on series protagonist Aang's non-violent personality and his reluctance to kill Fire Lord Ozai.
