41.   Pakistan is the only country with diplomatic relations with the Taliban government in Kabul, where the aid workers are being kept.

42.   Pay schemes that reward long service more than merit and productivity make it disproportionately costly to keep older workers on the payroll.

43.   Overall, the biggest threat to the American workplace is the inability to attract and keep good workers.

44.   Pumped-in jets of water help keep workers from slowly cooking to death.

45.   Restaurants, like Bob Evans Farms Inc., of Columbus, Ohio, are finding it takes patience to attract and keep workers in fast-growing metropolitan areas.

46.   Rain and snow storms in the West and Midwest last week may have kept some workers from getting to unemployment offices to file claims.

47.   Relief agencies say they did not note the people who were leaving this valley, because agency security regulations and police have kept the workers away from the fighting.

48.   Some even are paying hiring and retention bonuses to get and keep workers.

49.   Subsequent steps to placate the workers included overhauling the ventilation system and keeping the workers away from photocopiers and carbonless paper, which they also claimed made them sick.

50.   Stealing to survive and drinking are such ingrained habits, he said, that it takes a former army tank commander like him to keep workers in line.