Articles filed under Washington Post
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LivingSocial alums apply lessons learned to foodie start-upJul 17, 2016 7:14 am - Alan Clifford and Ian Costello were problem solvers at LivingSocial, the Washington, D.C.-based daily deals company that was a sizzling start-up before its business mode...
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Pizza employees put skin in the gameJul 17, 2016 7:13 am - Jovante Wood has nearly two dozen tattoos, but this is his first company logo. He got his last tattoo, an outer space motif that takes up most of his forearm, two weeks ...
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Gender pay gap in med schools: Female physicians earn less, less likely to be full professorsJul 17, 2016 7:12 am - You've probably heard that women make 79 cents (or 84 cents, 92 cents or some other number depending on whom you ask) to every dollar that men make. Although the exact n...
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When the director is a friend, and a drinkerJul 17, 2016 7:11 am - Q: I serve on the board of a charitable organization run by volunteers except for one paid, part-time director. For some time, I've been aware that the director, a close...
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The people taking care of American kids live in povertyJul 17, 2016 7:11 am - The people who are paid watch America's children tend to live in poverty. Nearly half receive some kind of government assistance: food stamps, welfare checks, Medicaid. ...
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Why don't millennials contribute to IRAs? They say they don't understand themJul 17, 2016 7:10 am - Individual Retirement Accounts can be an important part of your retirement plan, especially if you don't have an employer-sponsored 401(k) or 403(b). But the fifth annua...
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Inducing birth at 39 weeks may be good medicineJul 17, 2016 7:00 am - When doctors who treat pregnant women recently met to debate the best time to induce labor, they came up with a surprising answer: 39 weeks — three weeks earlier than cu...
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GOP convention aims to make Trump 'likable'Jul 17, 2016 1:00 am - CLEVELAND - As the gavel drops to begin the Republican National Convention here on Monday, the party will be focused on two goals: reintroducing Donald Trump as someone ...
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Analysis: Voice assistants are going to take over your whole lifeJul 16, 2016 7:23 am - Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant - you may think you're pretty familiar with these products today, but that's nothing compared to how close you'll be with them if ...
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Robot takes power walking to a new levelJul 16, 2016 7:22 am - The DURUS robot can walk more than a mile in man's shoes. A pair of size 13 Adidas sneakers, to be specific. Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have tackle...