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Business Definition for: TOIL

  • time off in lieu

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Take a break... take TOIL!
Aug 18, 2003 (Intax - ABIX via COMTEX) In August 2003, tax practices will be striving to meet Australian Taxation Office deadlines. Many practices worry about staff turnover as the deadline period approaches. One way to provide staff with an incentive to work hard...
Tags: Australian Taxation Office, FINANCE, incentive, SALES, staff, Taxes
Research articles 2003-08-18
Faces of teamwork ; Many help in NYC cleanup.(clean up of World Trade Center after September 11 devestation)(Brief Article)
New York - Collectively, their job is high-profile. But individually they toil in relative obscurity. They are the men and women who are cleaning up the devastation created that September morning when everything changed. In the world of waste ...
Tags: debris, teamwork, World Trade Center
Research articles 2001-12-10
UNILEVER: POT NOODLES.(advertising)(Brief article)
To prove Unilever's Pot Noodles are truly the fuel of Britain, this spot by Mother, London, is set inside a Welsh noodle mine, where workers toil to carve through sheer ... To prove Unilever's Pot Noodles are truly the fuel of Britain, this spot by Mother,...
Tags: advertisement, Unilever PLC
Research articles 2006-06-05
NYU hotel conference: let the good times roll! (New York University Hospitality Investment Conference)
New York -- Are hotels back? You bet, and more than 1,100 attendees at the recent 17th Annual NYU Hospitality Investment Conference at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City provided proof positive that years and years of toil and turmoil are fin New York --...
Tags: New York University
Research articles 1995-08-01
On the Job; Dr. Yitz Glick, Kaiser Permanente physician; founder of Israel's Efrat Emergency Medical Clinic.(Health Care)(Biography)
Byline: Ruthann Robinson Dr. Yitz Glick works in the Cleveland Clinic emergency room part of the time, but his heart is in Israel full time. That's why the 42-year-old Kaiser Permanente physician flies there every few weeks to toil in the after-...
Tags: clinic, health care, job, Kaiser Permanente, physician
Research articles 2002-12-02
Many agree there was a JFK plot — but not on who did the
WASHINGTON -- In the 42 years since the assassination of President Kennedy, here's what has been agreed on by those who still pursue one of the most sensational crimes in history: very little, if anything. After the release of millions of pages of documents, and more than four...
Tags: CIA, conference, Dallas, theory
Research articles 2005-11-24
University of Florida Study: Only Holders of Brainy Jobs Get Paid for Emotional Toil.
Byline: University of Florida Byline: University of Florida
Tags: job, University of Florida
Research articles 2004-10-04
TV Q & A: Lori Laughlin is a soap veteran
Question: I know that Lori Loughlin of the new series "Summerland" was also on "Full House." But I'm also sure she was once a regular on a daytime soap. The horrible part is that I can't remember which soap, and because I can't no one believes me. Please help. ...
Tags: ABC Inc., Games, TVs
Research articles 2004-07-03
Shame on voters
I agree wholeheartedly with your comments on legislative pay. I have written my legislator to that effect. This fall I expressed the same opinion to both the incumbent and his challenger. Their reaction was to wince. They do not believe that Kansas voters will ever support such an...
Tags: FINANCE, Government, Kansas, PRODUCTIVITY, Sierra Club, Taxes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2000-10-24
Picture, if you will, a TV season born of chaos
IF ONLY Rod Serling were around to usher us into television's midseason madness. He might introduce it this way: "You're about to travel through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of reruns, rejects and reality shows. It's a less-than-wondrous land whose...
Tags: ABC Inc., CBS Corp., drama, NBC, TVs
Research articles 2008-01-03
That One Thing That Kills Procrastination
That one thing that kills procrastination. What can you do when you do not feel like getting started? We all know what that feels like. You sit there staring at the mountain of work in front of you while your mind screens a horror movie of toil and effort. The...
Tags: List, Author
White papers 2007-01-01
They're Just Not That Into Us.(Column)
By J. Max Robins Can all of us who toil in the media and entertainment business take a collective deep breath, agree to get over ourselves, and declare a moratorium on behind-the-scenes series about the business? Let's face facts: Between the coasts,...
Tags: MARKETING, NBC, Strategy
Research articles 2007-05-28
ON THE ROAD
An Editor's job such as this consists of three main activities - staring at the screen; wining & dining; and daydreaming. (There's also support for playwright Alan Bennett's belief that writing largely consists of drinking cups of tea.) The toil at the keyboard brings home the bacon, but tends to...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Editor, FINANCE, Insurance, Manufacturing, TVs
Research articles 2007-04-01
Got Six Sigma On The Brain
The Six Sigma boom has taken the corporate world by storm. However, there are still some companies who are debating over its pros and cons. Researches also show divided results. Some companies feel that Six Sigma is the most apt way to streamline processes. On the other hand, some organizations...
Tags: It Operations, Quality, Process Improvement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Operations, Six Sigma
White papers 2003-01-01
Motormouth boss puts spanner in works by saying French toil harder
YESTERDAY SHOULD have been a day of triumph for the Toyota workers of Burnaston. The car manufacturer revealed that its Midlands plant was about to become the first in the world to export Toyotas the new Avensis model to Japan. In the words of one assembly employee, this was an...
Tags: car, France, Mr., Toyota Motor Corp., worker
Research articles 2003-03-04
Keeping promises
Will the world do the right thing by Africa?AIDSWhen President Bush announced during this year's State of the Union speech two major initiatives to fight AIDS and poverty in poor countries in and outside Africa, the promise of such bold proposals from the world's wealthiest nation surely meant a respite...
Tags: Africa, poverty, president, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2003-11-01
Spoilt for choice.(Brief Article)
YOU are a decent investment bank, whose honest bankers toil all hours to monopolise the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in Europe. You are advising a firm on a takeover when the target cries foul--for the trifling reason that you had previously advised a company that...
Tags: bank, Europe, FINANCE, Goldman Sachs & Co., Investment, M&A
Research articles 1999-11-20
For Jazz, Bell to toil
Raja Bell kind of thought he might be taken in the second round of the 1999 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks, who'd told him that would happen and were the only team that looked at the Florida International product that year. But it didn't happen. Bell ended...
Tags: CAREER, Games, NBA, Philadelphia, Utah
Research articles 2003-09-27
The family that works together…
The Family That Works Together ... Encourage your children to work this summer. Everyone benefits--you, your kids, and their employers, especially if the youngsters work for you. Financial issues aside, working children begin to develop a valuable work ethic, a work history that should help them land...
Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, inflation, Internal Revenue Service, Investment, salary, Taxes
Research articles 1989-06-01
Stay the course on chemical weapons ban
Leave it to Washington to toil for more than two decades to create a new arms control regime that abolishes poison gas and then, once it takes off, to begin foolishly undercutting its own achievement by trying to water down the treaty's verification provisions. But that is exactly what Congress...
Tags: Government, monitoring, Russia, treaty, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 1997-01-01
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