Three weeks after Republicans captured control of the government, Americans hold favorable views of the party and President Bush, but they are less enthusiastic about some of the policies Republicans are promoting, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Another complaint was filed with the F.B.I. in California by Ordóñez's agent, Scott Boras, after Canseco called Boras's office and spoke to one of Boras's associates, saying Ordóñez would be "clear" in Canseco's next book if he invested money in a $5 million movie project Canseco was promoting, according to a person in baseball with knowledge of the situation.
José Canseco, the former major league slugger and admitted steroid user who exposed other players in his 2005 best-selling book "Juiced," offered to keep a Detroit Tigers outfielder "clear" in his next book if the player invested money in a film project Canseco was promoting, according to a person in baseball with knowledge of the situation.
Second, we make sure that our promotion rates are tracking inside the company so that women and minorities are promoted according to their performance, their contributions and their areas of expertise.
Perhaps people are promoted according to unwritten rules that will ensure compliance with the status quo.
It is an intergovernmental organization, not an N.G.O., with a mission to promote, according to its charter, "humane and orderly migration".
Black and Latino representation has declined in Silicon Valley, and although Asians are the most likely to be hired, they are the least likely to be promoted, according to a new study exposing persistent racial prejudice in the tech industry.
Under the agreement, teachers would be hired and promoted according to how they fare in a set of tests devised and marked by a new independent body.The reaction of educational experts to the deal has been muted.
Where people are promoted according to personal ties rather than merit, the bank gives a score of only two out of six; where ombudsmen and auditors exist, but lack authority, the bank gives a score of just three.
The tactics -- particularly in "free-fire zones," where anyone was regarded as fair game -- arose from the frustrating nature of the guerrilla war and, above all, from the military's reliance on the body count as a measure of success and a reason officers were promoted, according to many accounts.
It's "a corporate-manufactured show that openly and self-reflexively parodies the very consumer capitalism it simultaneously promotes", according to an earnest book of essays, Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons And The Possibility Of Oppositional Culture, one of countless academic studies analysing its contributions to philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, mathematics and linguistics.
