Firms employ nurses to stop "sickies" (Reuters)

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Firms Use Nurses in Call Centers to Stop
'Sickies' (Reuters)

Firms Use Nurses in Call Centers to Stop
'Sickies' (Reuters) 06/28/2004 09:38 AM
Reuters - Employees planning a sickie might think twice if they have to explain themselves to a nurse, according to a British management firm.

Nurses in nighties stage South Africa
pajama protest (Reuters)

Nurses in nighties stage South Africa
pajama protest (Reuters) 04/14/2005 06:50 AM
Reuters - South African nurses are wearing pajamas and nighties to work to demand a higher uniform allowance, drawing criticism from health officials who say they are confusing patients and turning hospitals into bedrooms.

PCs throw nine sickies a year

PCs throw nine sickies a year 06/23/2004 07:54 AM
'I won't be in today - I got spammed last night'

BenQ encouraged workers to throw footy
sickies

BenQ encouraged workers to throw footy
sickies 08/04/2004 06:08 AM
Red card for Euro 2004 sponsor

Kimono-Makers Employ Computer Graphics
(AP)

Kimono-Makers Employ Computer Graphics
(AP) 09/18/2004 10:51 PM
AP - For centuries, Japan's kimono-makers have relied on stencils, paintbrushes and hours of labor to turn out their elaborate and graceful creations. Kimono designer Yuko Iwakuma uses some more up-to-date tools: a computer and an ink-jet printer.

Danes Employ Child-Finding Device (AP)

Danes Employ Child-Finding Device (AP) 04/29/2004 11:58 AM
AP - Parents visiting the Legoland amusement park in western Denmark can now rent small tracking gadgets for their children to wear around their wrist.

Kimono-Makers Employ Computer Graphics

Kimono-Makers Employ Computer Graphics 09/17/2004 10:19 AM
AP via Los Angeles Times Sep 17 2004 2:16PM GMT

California local governments
cooperate... to employ more lawyers

California local governments
cooperate... to employ more lawyers 08/29/2004 08:36 AM

This AP story about California local governments suing Microsoft for monopoly pricing in their sales to city and county governments is interesting.  It is not clear why any of these plaintiffs need Windows.  A lot of their desktops are probably still running Win98.  One can argue the relative merits of GNU/Linux versus WinXP but it is obvious that GNU/Linux and the free OpenOffice suite are more powerful than older versions of Microsoft products.  In a state with thousands of unemployed programmers you'd think that these governments could have cooperated to hire 100 programmers to port some of their Windows-only applications to Web-based or GNU/Linux apps.  Instead they cooperated to hire 100 lawyers so that they can shackle themselves to Microsoft for another 10 years but at a slightly lower price.

[Back in 1997, I proposed that the Federales hire Linux developers instead of using Microsoft Word to write anti-Microsoft complaints.  It has been seven years and still our government prefers to hire lawyers rather than programmers.  Can we blame children if they decide to go to law school rather than doing something that will add to the G.D.P.?] 

Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking
(Reuters)

Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking
(Reuters) 04/15/2005 09:51 AM
Reuters - A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.

Bid to stop F-word on U.S. airwaves
(Reuters)

Bid to stop F-word on U.S. airwaves
(Reuters) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
Reuters - U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell has proposed barring the word "fuck" from most radio and broadcast television, regardless of the context, sources close to the issue have said.

China to employ high-tech and sex
education in war on Internet porn (AFP)

China to employ high-tech and sex
education in war on Internet porn (AFP) 08/01/2004 06:44 PM
AFP - China plans a multi-pronged approach to its fight against Internet porn, employing both high technology and sex education to stop young people from visiting lewd websites, state media said.

Employ the Services of a Technology
Travel Agent for Your Next Computer
Rental

Employ the Services of a Technology
Travel Agent for Your Next Computer
Rental 02/06/2005 03:00 AM
A Technology Travel AgentŠ from Rentacomputer.com can handle your technology reservations the same way your travel agent handles your airline and hotel reservations. [PRWEB Feb 6, 2005]

Microsoft to employ pro-merchant
whitelist technology for validating spam

Microsoft to employ pro-merchant
whitelist technology for validating spam 05/05/2004 10:40 PM
Microsoft will begin using a whilelisting service for spam filtering. Marketers will have to post a bond with IronPort to send to Hotmail and MSN inboxes. Will it work?

Turning to goats to stop wildfires
(Reuters)

Turning to goats to stop wildfires
(Reuters) 06/24/2005 09:57 PM
Reuters - Move over Smokey the Bear. In California, thousands of goats are helping prevent wildfires.

Chimpanzee told to stop smoking
(Reuters)

Chimpanzee told to stop smoking
(Reuters) 04/14/2005 03:55 PM
Reuters - A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.

Last Stop for Teen's Tram Obsession
(Reuters)

Last Stop for Teen's Tram Obsession
(Reuters) 04/18/2005 10:14 AM
Reuters - An Australian teen-ager described by police as a good kid with an obsession for trams reached the end of the line Monday when he faced charges over the theft of two trolley cars in the southern city of Melbourne.

Police Stop Skateboarder on Motorway
(Reuters)

Police Stop Skateboarder on Motorway
(Reuters) 07/23/2004 01:27 PM
Reuters - Shocked German motorists found themselves sharing a motorway with a Swedish vacationer traveling by skateboard until police prevailed upon him to seek safer passage home, authorities said Friday.

Italians told to stop moaning (Reuters)

Italians told to stop moaning (Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - Italy's transport minister has refused to take the blame for traffic chaos which has caused misery for hundreds of people stuck on snow-blocked motorways, and has told people to stop complaining.

Stop sending us money says aid group
(Reuters)

Stop sending us money says aid group
(Reuters) 01/04/2005 11:19 AM
Reuters - The medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) has urged donors to stop sending it money for Asian tsunami victims, saying it had collected enough funds to manage its relief effort there.

Overheated PCs Mean Hot Business for
Cooling Firms (Reuters)

Overheated PCs Mean Hot Business for
Cooling Firms (Reuters) 06/04/2004 07:05 AM
Reuters - Powerful microchips are throwing off so much heat that the inside of a personal computer is hotter than Death Valley, helping Taiwan firms specializing in cooling components post sizzling sales.

Dell selects Winston-Salem for new N.C.
computer plant, to employ hundreds

Dell selects Winston-Salem for new N.C.
computer plant, to employ hundreds 12/25/2004 05:29 PM
Canadian Press Dec 25 2004 6:41PM GMT

Wild boars stop Berlin traffic (Reuters)

Wild boars stop Berlin traffic (Reuters) 08/20/2004 12:18 PM
Reuters - Alarmed motorists in Berlin called police after a 28-strong pack of wild boar took to a quiet street in search of food.

Report: HP to Stop Using Intel Itanium
Chip (Reuters)

Report: HP to Stop Using Intel Itanium
Chip (Reuters) 09/26/2004 10:33 PM
Reuters - Printer and PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co. will stop offering desktop workstations based on Intel Corp.'s Itanium microprocessor, The Wall Street Journal reported on its online edition.

Last stop for Australian teen's tram
obsession (Reuters)

Last stop for Australian teen's tram
obsession (Reuters) 04/18/2005 12:12 AM
Reuters - An Australian teenager described by police as a good kid with an obsession for trams reached the end of the line on Monday when he faced charges over the theft of two trolley cars in the southern city of Melbourne.

Rabbi Urges Pig Fat on Buses to Stop
Bombers (Reuters)

Rabbi Urges Pig Fat on Buses to Stop
Bombers (Reuters) 02/13/2004 09:19 AM
Reuters - A prominent Israeli rabbi has proposed hanging bags of pig fat in buses to deter Muslim suicide bombers who may want to avoid contact with an "unclean" animal, an Israeli official said on Thursday.

Shoe glue banned to stop sniffers
(Reuters)

Shoe glue banned to stop sniffers
(Reuters) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
Reuters - State legislators have banned the sale of shoe glue in Rio de Janeiro because too many people were sniffing it in the crime-ridden Brazilian city.

Bush Says 'That Ad' Attacking Kerry
Should Stop (Reuters)

Bush Says 'That Ad' Attacking Kerry
Should Stop (Reuters) 08/23/2004 02:36 PM
Reuters - Under pressure from Democrats and Republican Sen. John McCain, President Bush on Monday called for ads attacking John Kerry's record in Vietnam to be stopped along with others run by independent groups, and said Kerry should be proud of his war service.

Iraq Bomb Kills 50; U.S. Says Can't Stop
All Attacks (Reuters)

Iraq Bomb Kills 50; U.S. Says Can't Stop
All Attacks (Reuters) 02/10/2004 11:54 PM
Reuters - A car bomb killed about 50 people at a police station near Baghdad, one of the deadliest strikes on Iraqis working with U.S. forces, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said it was impossible to prevent all such attacks.

Police Stop Drunk Bulldozer Joyrider
(Reuters)

Police Stop Drunk Bulldozer Joyrider
(Reuters) 04/26/2004 09:02 AM
Reuters - German police stopped a 17-tonbulldozer weaving through Berlin's streets at 3 a.m. by jumping onto the excavator, smashing the window and spraying mace into the driver's face.

Electronics Firms Take Step Toward
Compatible Gadgets (Reuters)

Electronics Firms Take Step Toward
Compatible Gadgets (Reuters) 06/22/2004 07:13 PM
Reuters - A consortium of the world's largest computer and electronics companies on Tuesday established ground rules for building compatible electronic devices that can share movies, music and other media.

Firms to Fork Out for Smokers to Kick
Habit (Reuters)

Firms to Fork Out for Smokers to Kick
Habit (Reuters) 07/21/2004 07:28 AM
Reuters - Dutch companies are allowed to refund employees who take courses to stop smoking, as long as the courses are part of occupational health and safety plans, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.

Phone Firms Rush to Get TV on Mobile
Phones (Reuters)

Phone Firms Rush to Get TV on Mobile
Phones (Reuters) 09/10/2004 07:03 AM
Reuters - Europeans came a step closer to having television on their mobile phones on Friday when two groups of companies announced plans to push forward with consumer trials and establish a standard for the technology.

Massachusetts Charges Web Firms with
Stock Fraud (Reuters)

Massachusetts Charges Web Firms with
Stock Fraud (Reuters) 04/27/2004 01:00 PM
Reuters - Massachusetts' top securities regulator William Galvin said on Tuesday he charged two elusive Internet firms with defrauding investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through an online stock scam.

Digital Attacks Hit Biggest UK Firms
Weekly (Reuters)

Digital Attacks Hit Biggest UK Firms
Weekly (Reuters) 04/27/2004 11:36 AM
Reuters - Hacking attacks, virus outbreaks and other network intrusions hit Britain's biggest firms at a rate of roughly one a week in 2003, the Department of Trade and Industry said in its annual report on Tuesday.

Kerry Makes Stop in Nevada, Dean Pushes
On (Reuters)

Kerry Makes Stop in Nevada, Dean Pushes
On (Reuters) 02/14/2004 04:05 PM
Reuters - Democratic presidential contender John Kerry rallied support in Nevada on Saturday, while rivals Howard Dean and John Edwards pushed for votes in what could be their final bid to halt Kerry's winning streak in Wisconsin.

US Asked Falluja Insurgents to Stop
Firing -Bremer (Reuters)

US Asked Falluja Insurgents to Stop
Firing -Bremer (Reuters) 04/11/2004 10:49 AM
Reuters - U.S. authorities are hoping insurgents hold to a cease-fire in the volatile town of Falluja, but recent violence is not expected to delay the handover of the country's governance to Iraqis at the end of June, U.S. administrator Paul Bremer said on Sunday.

Pentagon Plans to Stop Funding Iraq's
Chalabi (Reuters)

Pentagon Plans to Stop Funding Iraq's
Chalabi (Reuters) 05/18/2004 10:38 AM
Reuters - The Pentagon plans to stop funding Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile it once hoped might help lead Iraq but whose intelligence reports and motives were doubted elsewhere in Washington, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.

Army Issues Order to Stop U.S. Soldiers
from Leaving (Reuters)

Army Issues Order to Stop U.S. Soldiers
from Leaving (Reuters) 06/02/2004 10:20 AM
Reuters - The U.S. Army has issued an order preventing thousands of soldiers designated for duty in Iraq or Afghanistan from leaving the military even when their volunteer service commitment expires, officials said on Wednesday.

Cole Bombing Clues Could Have Helped
Stop 9/ll -Report (Reuters)

Cole Bombing Clues Could Have Helped
Stop 9/ll -Report (Reuters) 04/10/2004 11:06 PM
Reuters - FBI and CIA Investigators probing the October 2000 terrorist attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole came close to detecting the Sept. 11 hijacked airliners plot, The New York Times reported in Sunday's editions.
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