Part of the problem is that while we move towards implementation of E2.0, and introduce change in roles that support it, we have yet to strongly define some of the job characteristics and functions.

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This year I laid off a high-salaried person from the business side and proposed two editorial layoffs of employees whose job functions could be absorbed.

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Many more moderately-priced phones have basic calendar and contact functions, but carriers do a miserable job of helping consumers synchronize those phones with the computers that manage them today.

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Despite the 50-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act this year, women continue to earn less than men across most job functions.

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Such an abdication of one of the Senate's most important functions might be tolerable, if reprehensible, provided the executive branch were doing its job - negotiating thoughtfully and forcefully on behalf of and toward ends that actually advance U.S. interests.

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