Strachan half-joked that he'd been named PFA Manager of the Year mostly for his man-management in coping with complex characters such as goalkeeper Artur Boruc, as well as dealing with a frosty relationship with winger Aiden McGeady.

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Paul Orefice, a partner and creative director at The Watsons LLC, a New York-based ad agency, says he recently told a candidate for a production-manager position that if hired, he'd be working among an all-gay staff.

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He'd been having only modest success selling copies of his self-published PCgame, Outpost Kaloki, in which the player becomes a space station manager in a 3-D cartoon world.

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In a year-end note to investors, fund manager Bill D'Alonzo cited tightening profit margins, among other worries, as reasons for selling.

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Again, if an SEC-registered money manager had committed these errors, they'd be held accountable.

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Yves Galarneau, the correctional services manager who oversees the Saint-Jerome jail said he'd never seen anything like the dramatic escape in more than three decades on the job.

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"I knew the law but I was worried there'd be stigmas, " said Mr. Leavy, a 37-year-old construction manager.

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Google product manager Peter Birch said that by the end of the year Google's 3-D coverage, aided by imagery from cameras mounted on Google's own fleet of planes, would extend to areas with a combined population of 300 million people.

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