In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast.
She told him “a great man is one sentence.” His leadership can be so well summed up in a single sentence that you don’t have to hear his name to know who’s being talked about.
On average, anyone walking into Wal-Mart is likely to spend more than $200,000 at the store during the rest of his life. Therefore, any clueless employee who alienates that customer will cost the store around a quarter-million dollars.
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| — | A Wal-Mart expose by writer Charles Platt, who surprisingly finds it’s great place to work. [via reason] |
The Texas experience is one example of how differences in policy between states has resulted in differences in outcomes and flows of people across political boundaries. In this case, a state government competed against other state governments, and based on its own endpoints, won.
Then the players were told to extend their sleep to 10 hours a night for five to six weeks. After increasing sleep, the athletes performed better on all the drills.
In fact, the best way to significantly reduce the ability of special interests to pass legislation damaging to the American people is to reduce government.
Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it.
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| — | Stanley Kubrick via Daring Fireball |
Pre-rinsing dishes is a big mistake.
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| — | My dad has been right all these years. Why isn’t my dishwasher cleaning my dishes? - NYTimes.com |
If markets don’t work, have government intervene. If government intervention doesn’t work, have government intervene further.
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| — | The motto of “Government Fundamentalism” |
Eighty-five percent of our budget is personnel — and we still do not have a hiring freeze!
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| — | 85%. John Daley (brother of the mayor), angered by Todd Stroger’s refusal to streamline Chicago’s Cook County government. From The Tribune |
