• In about 40% of cases, they found, subordinates changed their behaviour as a result of their telling-off, and female bosses were as successful in this as men.

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  • "Truth-telling pays off, even if you're clumsy about it, " he said.

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  • Had Tuesday's 999 caller followed Sir Alex Ferguson's example, he would have avoided a police telling off - the Manchester United manager was said afterwards to be "too distraught" to speak about the match.

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  • He wants to be for the 1980s and 1990s what Gamal Abdel Nasser was for the 1950s and 1960s: the preeminent Pan-Arabist, the leader of an as-yet-unborn third force telling Soviets and Americans to stay off his turf.

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  • Anything lower reduces the expected cost of criminality, without doing anything to improve the probability of detection. (Treating whistleblowers leniently is consistent with this logic: letting them off punishment raises the odds of truth-telling, and therefore of detection.) There are plenty of arguments against ultra-high fines, however.

    ECONOMIST: Free exchange

  • Arsenal's midweek match-winner Eduardo was the central figure in the third goal, striking a post with a volley from a Gael Clichy cross before driving in a follow-up effort which found the net courtesy of a telling deflection off Eboue.

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  • But he dismissed any connection with the Drumcree stand-off and went to Portadown to insist the protest must continue, telling the crowd the dead boys were in fact Protestants.

    ECONOMIST: From forward march to retreat

  • And Chancellor George Osborne also ruled out an annual levy on wealth, another idea floated by the Lib Dems, telling Sky News it was not a "sensible" way of getting the better-off to contribute more.

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  • Through it all King has, amazingly, stayed down-to-earth in her dealings with mere mortals and does not come off as difficult and ego-driven, at least in her own telling.

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  • They decided to pull the plug and write it all off, and sent a letter to Drake telling him to close down the start-up.

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  • Now, before I get off the topic of the education, let me do a little more truth-telling.

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  • With Sicko, Moore starts out telling the stories of a few people without health insurance, who can't afford to reattach cut-off fingers or who stitch up their own wounds.

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  • The former gave their academic blessing by telling everyone that markets were rational and efficient and latter responded with deregulation of the financial industry and an increasingly hands-off approach to economic policy.

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  • The shift towards a more pre-emptive form of regulation, in which a build-up of systemic risk is addressed before trouble hits, will probably mean telling borrowers that credit has been turned off for their own good.

    ECONOMIST: Financial regulators

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