Flexibility: Allowing employees to telecommute and work unorthodox hours will not only keep existing talent from jumping ship for an extra couple bucks, but opens up new pools of talent like college students and single parents.

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Why would the employer lay down the extra cash for more expensive female talent, except that she is way more talented than the other men and the women?

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And when the talent ran out immigrants arrived, to bring extra vim not only to the building trades but, because lots of them are Polish, to Ireland's fading Roman Catholic church.

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Owen will add extra experience to an attack that still boasts plenty of established talent in Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov, plus youngsters Danny Welbeck and Federico Macheda.

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Though it can't make up for major gaps in talent or depth, which recently existed between the better Spanish and German sides, that extra physical edge in the spring can be the difference between two otherwise equal teams.

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