If you've ever heard the expression "shape up or ship out," you may have wondered where it came from and what it means. Find out in our mini-article just for kids! ... When a soldier was told to "shape up or ship out," it meant that he needed to do a better job or he'd be shipped overseas to a combat zone.
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Employees screw up for all kinds of reasons. Maybe a promotion turns sour. Could be they feel unappreciated. ... Obviously, it's up to the chief to set standards and direction. But lone-ranger entrepreneurs aren't known for patience or touchy-feely expertise. Pressed for time and stretched for profits, business owners and...
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Regrettably, the current obsession with how military missions will be defined and whether members spend two percent of their GDPS on defense has obscured a more urgent crisis: NATO needs to take steps to ensure that old, new, and prospective members live up to its political standards, thereby securing the organization...
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www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/58423/celeste-a-walland...
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/58423/celeste-a-wallander/natos-price-shape-up-or-ship-out
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Eric Bettinger, Bridget Terry Long ... NBER Working Paper No. 10369*; Issued in March 2004; NBER Program(s): ED ... NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH...
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www.nber.org/papers/10369
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I know I’m not in the shape I once was, but it seems rather cruel of the Cantabrigians to send around huge signs on buses that say “Run, Fatboy, Run” when I go out for a morning jog. ... One Response to “Shape up or ship out”...
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How the Pentagon can cut the military budget and still keep us safe ... By John Cavanagh, Anita Dancs and Miriam Pemberton ... A year after former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned, someone dumped at the Washington Post’s door an avalanche of his “snowflakes”: his term for the multiple memos he circulated...
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www.inthesetimes.com/article/3579/shape_up_and_ship_out...
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2 May 2008 Employer-Sponsored Coverage: Shape It Up? Ship It Out? ing out-of-pocket costs in tandem with rising pre-miums. Since 2001, an increasing number of firms have been requiring deductibles for PPO in-network care and HMO inpatient hospital servic-es.
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We caught up with Hustad in New York City, where she has lived and worked for the past 10 years. ... It's a very American -- especially, I think, very Midwestern -- way of being funny, putting yourself up for ridicule. The problem is a lot of young people do it in a way that gives their bosses too much information about...
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