I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six read more

I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six weeks off a year, employees are demanding more day to day flexibility, like the ability to telecommute, flex-time and child care or elder-care benefits. Those are the other areas where we are seeing real growth, while sabbaticals are sort of going up and down.

Living on the Lawn is a privilege and a responsibility. We hope future residents will take it very seriously.

Living on the Lawn is a privilege and a responsibility. We hope future residents will take it very seriously.

A few days ago some thought they were going to wipe us off the map. Today the Popular Party is read more

A few days ago some thought they were going to wipe us off the map. Today the Popular Party is still the great party it has always been.

I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month read more

I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ago.

We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, read more

We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, and we kind of got sucked into that. We were forcing things. We need to do a better job of sticking to our stuff and doing what we want to do.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than read more

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

We felt like we had a good corral of running backs, so instead of running the (I-formation) and featuring one, read more

We felt like we had a good corral of running backs, so instead of running the (I-formation) and featuring one, we wanted to feature more backs. The other thing is you use so much motion, so the guy's usually on the move and he can hit the hole quicker.

Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time.

Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time.

If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in read more

If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in question, we at the endowment will be prepared to defend it.