• The credit summary includes the name of the creditor, the type of credit--installment such as a mortgage or revolving such as a department store charge account.

    FORBES: Deciphering A Credit Report

  • One 2009 study examined how workers reacted to several common methods of firing, such as having a third party such as a human resources manager or a security guard present during the firing, or mentioning the employee's positive attributes as he or she was being dismissed.

    WSJ: Bad Call: Firing Yahoo CEO Bartz by Phone

  • It unravels the apparent mystery of why Obama was such a relatively galvanizing speaker as a candidate and such a relatively belabored lecturer as a president.

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  • She suggested women who had completed their families should consider a permanent form of birth control such as sterilisation, and those who still wanted to have a family considered using a back-up form of birth control, such as a condom, as well as the Pill.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Pill 'fails more in obese women'

  • It comes standard with a handful of applications such as a calculator, and Microsoft has said that later in the year it will release a number of free applications such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as a number of games.

    BBC: Updated Microsoft Zune released

  • Nigel Hollis, a former consumer goods marketer who is now chief global analyst at research agency Millward Brown, says nonconscious indentification may work well for simple, everyday purchases such as a box of Twinings tea, but bigger, more expensive purchases, such as a new car, are likely to involve much more complex decision making.

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  • During the dotcom boom, the idea got about that there could be such a thing as a free lunch, or at least free internet services.

    ECONOMIST: Internet companies

  • Not many hockey fans off Long Island thought the Penguins, a Stanley Cup favorite, would ever have to play such a thing as a "big game" against the Islanders.

    WSJ: Isles to Penguins: Next Goalie, Please

  • The city said that under a federal civil rights law known as Title VII, employers must ban actions such as promotion tests that would have a "disparate impact" on a protected class, such as a specified race or gender.

    CNN: High court backs firefighters in reverse discrimination suit

  • Likewise, a trader such as George Soros or a growth investor such as T.

    FORBES: Are Some Money Managers Great, or Just Lucky?

  • Well, the iPod hack recorded the IR signals from a remote (such as a Tivo remote) as sound files.

    ENGADGET: HOW-TO: Enable web based viewing and remote control over your TiVo

  • The price of things that you might buy every day such as bread or milk is more important than something you might buy less than once a month such as a haircut.

    BBC: Inflation calculator: How does it work?

  • As much as some might hope for a thing such as a truth serum, none exists.

    CNN: 'Truth serum' won't reveal mind of James Holmes

  • However, these tablets, particularly when combined with cloud storage services such as Dropbox or a product such as PogoPlug, can themselves more conveniently handle many of the tasks that justified remotely connecting to a PC.

    ENGADGET: Switched On: When the smartphone giveth, Part 2

  • All that is alleged-and all that has to be established-in a 421 petition is that imports from China are increasing in such a manner as to be a cause of market disruption (or threat thereof) to the domestic industry.

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  • That involves tracking a device as it moves away from a known location, such as a door to a building (which can be pinpointed via GPS because it is outdoors).

    FORBES: Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia And RIM To Battle Google Over Indoor Location Market

  • Try to buy it as part of a group plan such as a professional trade group or a college alumni association.

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  • Yet other characteristics identified by Dr. Vohs as associated with a monetary focus such as a reluctance to be involved with or dependent on others, or to accept direction from outside parties are almost certainly detrimental.

    FORBES: What Drives The Best Entrepreneurs? Hint: It's Not Money

  • Then he discovered a new Japanese method of cutting diamonds: When viewed under a low-magnification (3x) lens, the stone refracted light in such a way as to give off a pattern of eight heart-shaped sparkles at the bottom of the diamond and eight arrow-shaped fire-bursts through the top--hence the name "hearts-and-arrows" diamonds.

    FORBES: Stones on fire

  • Pay attention to certain keywords (such as a product, business name, etc.) and keep tabs by utilizing a service such as Social Mention (socialmention.com) or Openbook (youropenbook.org).

    FORBES: By Tim McMullen

  • Infection in a setting such as a dentist's office is rare, the health department said, but the patients should be tested as a precaution.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Reagan-era economic growth, and gold standard proponents such as financier and Gold Commissioner Lewis Lehrman and author and former Kemp presidential co-chair Jeffrey Bell (with both of whom this writer is professionally associated) have been notable in their advocacy for a 21st century gold standard, as has such a respected figure as Steve Forbes.

    FORBES: Paul Ryan: 'The Band Is Getting Back Together.'

  • Society needs a mechanism for sorting out its more intelligent members from its less intelligent ones, just as a track team needs a mechanism (such as a stopwatch) for sorting out the faster athletes from the slower ones.

    NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

  • Accordingly, the United States has sought in SALT I and II and now in the START talks to ensure that penetrating bombers were either unconstrained or limited in such a way as to encourage retention of such weapon systems over ballistic missiles.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Roundtable Discussion On The B-2 Bomber

  • While football and basketball can bring its share of unpredictability (who would have thought Manning's predecessor at the University of Tennessee, Heath Shuler, would be such a flop as a high draft pick in 1994 while Hall of Famer Joe Montana would be such a find in the third round in 1979?), there's nothing like the Major League Baseball June draft for guesswork and exasperation.

    FORBES: The Biggest Draft Flops In Sports

  • The size of the parcel can range from just a few acres, such as a pocket nature preserve literally in your backyard, to hundreds or even thousands of acres, such as the 90, 000-acre easement billionaire Louis Bacon put on his Trinchera Blanca ranch in Colorado last year.

    FORBES: Good And Bad News For Conservationists In New Tax Law

  • Many of the erroneous reports had missing information that may boost a score, such as missing a revolving account in good standing, or miscellaneous incorrect information such as an incorrect birthday.

    FORBES: 5 Credit Myths that Lead to Disaster

  • The new Welsh Bac involves a core of subjects such as communication and numeracy skills and European awareness, with optional subjects from courses already on offer such as A-levels and GNVQs.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Pros and cons of replacing A-levels

  • The game is simple: Shift as many costs as possible to a high-tax jurisdiction such as the U.S. and move as much income as possible to a low-tax country such as Ireland.

    FORBES: Would Trimming The U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Matter?

  • All of the stories can be easily viewed on a mobile device, such as a Kindle and an iPad, by signing up for tools that format Web text for smaller screens, such as Instapaper, Readability or Read It Later.

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