I HAVE always thought that the best way to improve efficiency and effectiveness among employees is to give them performance incentives, not “across-the-board” service awards often mandated by the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the school and its employees. Performance incentives are g
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(Editor’s note: Debates in affluent nations that fully depend on TV maybe necessary. In poor countries like RP the masses have few TV sets.)
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HERE are no economic miracles that do not come from hard work, industry ... “ President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo stressed to her team in giving focus to her campaign to defeat poverty with economic growth.
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FILIPINOS are top-notch political innovators. We have invented some very creative, if crazy, political doctrines and principles that one day will be included in pol-sci books and studied alongside the political theories of Jefferson, et al. Let’s take a look at some of these home-spun political phil
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OPPOSITION candidates for the presidency must be only too aware by now of the predicaments of challenging a sitting President.
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JESUS said to the Pharisees, “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even u
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THE British Council, the cultural arm of the British government, has been active in fostering programs that could strengthen education in the Philippines, especially in the learning of English. It has been working closely with Philippine government agencies such as the Department of Education and th
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UNTIL now people are still talking about that Supreme Court decision which ruled that FPJ is a natural-born Filipino and is therefore qualified to be a candidate for president of this country.
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OLDIES will recall Manuel Luis Quezon’s advocacy of a “partyless democracy,’’ in line with his dictum that his loyalty to party ended where his loyalty to his country began. It seems that his advocacy had been realized without our noticing it.
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SO The Lord of the Rings swept the Academy Awards, garnering 11 Oscars – for Best Picture, Best Song, Best Special Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Costumes, Best Make Up, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Mix, and Best Director. But the real stars of the 7
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VERY few people in our part of the world were shocked when Haiti’s president Jean Bertrand Aristide declared from somewhere in Central Africa, that he was kidnapped by the USA. So what else is new? A picture of Ferdinand Mar-cos in a floppy hat and striped shirt boarding a small aircraft came to min
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