Archive for January, 2007

Working Wounded: Dealing With Liars

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Working Wounded: Dealing With Liars Readers Respond With their Best Techniques for Responding to a Lying Coworker By
Jan. 5, 2007, 2006 - DEAR READERS: Recently I wrote a column on how to deal with a coworker that you think is lying to you. This column generated the most mail of any column […]

20/20 Vision

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

The vast majority of stock indices in Europe were higher Tuesday, save sluggishness in Italy, Ireland and Norway.
London’s FTSE 100 was adding 0.1% to 6243, and Frankfurt’s Xetra DAX was up 0.9% at 6790. The OMX Stockholm 30 was a big winner in Europe, gaining more than 1%.
In Eastern Europe, Croatia’s Zagreb Crobex […]

BA cabin crew strikes called off

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

More than 120 hours of negotiations between the airline and the Transport and General Workers Union led to an agreement.
A planned 48-hour walkout by thousands of stewards and stewardesses from tomorrow will not now go ahead, but many flights may still be disrupted.
Willie Walsh, the airline’s chief executive, said: ‘We are pleased that […]

Strike could cost BA £100m

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

City analysts estimated the potential blow to BA at between 10m and 15m a day if the 11,000 staff members carry through their plans for three 72-hour strikes.
The financial cost of the strike action adds to an expensive past six months for BA. Last month’s poor weather conditions and severe fog in the run-up […]

'Jungle woman' found after 19 years in wild

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

A WOMAN who disappeared in the jungles of north-eastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police said yesterday.
The woman - believed to be Rochom P’ngieng, who would now be 27 years old - cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her story have […]