This way of doing business has become awkward for the agency in the last few months, as stories have surfaced about inappropriate emails, vacation-home conversations over cocktails, and various discussions over lunch – all involving substantive issues in pending proceedings.
He also mentioned one that has yet to become a significant part of the national conversation: paid vacation for all workers.
I know I'd be better off focused on the computer, but at any given moment I'm pulled off track again and again by idle rumination, vacation planning, rehashing some conversation or wondering if the snow is good for sledding.
Get a new haircut, try a different makeup trick, go on a spontaneous vacation, strike up a conversation with a new girl/guy, or visit another spot in town that you haven't checked out yet.
Just as Facebook members post their latest vacation photos and spark conversations with buddies, someone in a marketing department, say, can post the latest version of a new ad and get instant feedback from his entire team on Chatter.
On the bus and above-ground subways in the past week, I have heard in detail about....stock transactions, hospital/doctor problems of someone's sister, food at restaurants and what's for dinner (a dozen times), he did cheat, she didn't cheat, she doesn't love me, I do love him, tutoring prices, vacation plans, and other conversations too boring and annoying to recount.
In a wide-ranging conversation from his vacation home on Hawaii's big island, this 72-year-old avid fisherman and pragmatic environmentalist spoke with Technology Review editor at large Robert Buderi about the future of Moore's Law, which he's revising again.
Here are excerpts from a conversation about family vacations that aren't built around theme parks.
Without official policies, they found it difficult to navigate conversations about taking vacation and sick days, balancing work and family expectations, and expensing items.
Opinion polls in Germany suggest that Ms. Merkel's strong standing with voters has not been damaged by the issue, nor has it displaced the weather or vacations as topics of summer conversation here.
