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Trump budget: More for the military, less for the poor

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent Congress a $4.1 trillion federal spending plan that promises faster economic growth and steep cuts to programs for the poor in ...

15 managers reveal the biggest lessons they learned from employees who quit

BusinessInsider.com 

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Q. What lesson from an employee departure really stuck with you, and why?

1. Hire for values alignment, not just skill

Hiring for values alignment can be a challenging process, but the rewards are many: higher performance, lower turnover rates and a happier culture.

We have strong values at our company, and they're integral to our hiring process. However, in the first year of business, we didn't make values alignment a priority and often hired wrong. Читать дальше...



Take-Two Interactive shares rally 4% as strong earnings offset delay in release of new video game

MarketWatch.com 

Shares of "Grand Auto Theft" maker Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. rallied 4% Tuesday, after better-than-expected earnings offset the bad news of a delay in the release of a much-anticipated new video game. "Although we are disappointed Red Dead Redemption 2 is getting pushed out to FY19, we are pleasantly surprised to see an EPS guidance for FY18 that looks to be about $1.40-$1.65, which is what we had thought management would use for its initial view with RDR2," MKM Partners analyst Eric Handler wrote in a note. Читать дальше...

Likely presidential candidate in Egypt ordered detained

«TDN» (tdn.com) 

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the detention for one day of an opposition leader widely tipped to challenge President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in 2018 elections following a complaint that he publicly made an obscene finger gesture.

Likely presidential candidate in Egypt ordered detained

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the detention for one day of an opposition leader widely tipped to challenge President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in 2018 elections following a complaint that he publicly made an obscene finger gesture.

Get Started: Government small business contracting slips

TheRepublic.com 

CONTRACTING GOAL The federal government gave a slightly smaller portion of its contracting dollars to small businesses in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, and also didn’t meet its goal for contracts with women-owned businesses. The government surpassed its goal of giving 23 percent of overall contracting funds to small companies, but last fiscal

How Brad Stevens transformed from a college basketball assistant making $18,000 a year to one of the best coaches in the NBA

BusinessInsider.com 

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Over the course of four years, Brad Stevens has helped transform the Boston Celtics from a lottery team to a title contender.

The turnaround has been stunning — the Celtics lack any traditional stars, and when they hired Stevens from Butler, they were supposed to be tanking.

Instead, Stevens has built a system of selfless, motion basketball that has turned a 5-foot-9 point guard in Isaiah Thomas into a dynamic scorer and turned a team of role players into one solid unit. Читать дальше...

Proposed Trump Budget: More Military; Less for Social Programs

Voice of America 

U.S. President Donald Trump is proposing major changes in the way Washington's $4.1 trillion budget is spent, with more money for the military, border security, and veterans. The just-published budget for next year also slashes money for programs that benefit the poor. Trump's top budget official Mick Mulvaney says for the first time the budget looks at spending from the point of view of the taxpayers, rather than the people who get government help. The director of the Office of Management and... Читать дальше...

CBS plan to unveil Tony Romo comes with huge expectations

New York Post (sports) 

Before he’s even appeared live on the air, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is being compared to an all-time sports broadcasting great. Romo will make his much-anticipated broadcasting debut for CBS not at an NFL game, but at a golf tournament, the Dean & DeLuca Invitational, this weekend, according to CBS Sports producer Lance Barrow....

Elisabeth Moss Set to Star in Upcoming BBC America Mini-Series ‘Fever’

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

"The Handmaid's Tale" and "Mad Men" actress is executive producing the project in conjunction with Annapurna Television “The Handmaid’s Tale” star Elisabeth Moss’s next project is another book adaptation, according to an announcement from BBC America on Tuesday. Moss will be starring and executive producing a period mini-series adaptation of “Fever,” a novel by Mary Beth Keane about “Typhoid Mary,” the woman who was discovered to be a healthy carrier of the sometimes deadly typhoid fever. “I’m... Читать дальше...





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