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Notice
Over the past month the Personnel Office has received numerous calls about the approval process for using the new "flex-time" (flexible-time)working schedule. In order to know how to take advantage of this system, please keep this notice in your records.
First, you must determine ff you are eligible (条件适合)to use a flex-time schedule. The flextime system is designed for those employees whose jobs do not require them to answer telephones or to be available to the public between the hours of 8: 00 A.M. and 5: 00 P.M.. In addition, an employee must receive written permission from his or her department manager.
Then, you must submit a copy of Form FY, signed by your manager, to the Personnel Office.
The Personnel Office will notify(通知)you when approval is cleared; you may then begin your new schedule on the following Monday.
You may’ obtain copies of FY from Mary White in Room 129. If you have any questions, see yo

[单项选择]Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors—habits—among consumers. These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.
"There are fundamental public health problems, like dirty hands instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we can’t figure out how to change people’s habits," said Dr. Curtis, the director of the Hygiene Center at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "We wanted to learn from private industry how to create new behaviors that happen automatically."
The companies that Dr. Curtis turned to—Procter ＆ Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever-had invested hundreds of millions of dollars finding the subtle cues in consumers’ lives that corporations could use to introduce new routines.
If you look hard enough, you’ll find that many of the products we use e
A. should be further cultivated
B. should be changed gradually
C. are deeply rooted in history
D. are basically private concerns

[单项选择] Over the past decade, American companies have tried hard to find ways to discourage senior managers from feathering their own nests at the expense of their shareholder. The three most popular reforms have been recruiting more outside directors in order to make boards more independent, linking bosses’’ pay to various performance measure, and giving bosses share options so that they have the same long-term interests as their shareholders. These reforms have been widely adopted by America’’s larger companies, and surveys suggest that many more companies are thinking of following their lead. But have they done any good Three papers presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston this week suggest not. As is usually the case with boardroom tinkering, the consequences have differed from those intended. Start with those independent boards. On the face of it, dismissing the boss’’s friends from the board and replacing them with outsiders looks a perfect way t
A. diversify the business of the corporation
B. protect the interests of the shareholders
C. introduce effective reforms in business management
D. enhance the cooperation between the senior managers and the board directors

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Over the past century, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism. This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet.
It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zoe Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K.
Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush’s predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the f
A. A kind of overlooked inequality.
B. A type of conspicuous bias.
C. A type of personal prejudice.
D. A kind of brand discrimination.