Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:20:18 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 () wrote:

>In article <uifhs3pvo0bguqpnokkhmtqgm0r536f5jb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Robert  <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:48:37 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
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>[snip]
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>>In the 1990s, most contractors were salaried. They were in a pool of
>>workers that was
>>moved from one client to the next. They were on a team.
>
>I used to refer to such folks as 'stable consultants', 'stable' in the 
>sense of 'group under central management', as in 'a stable of horses'.
>
>Some of them seemed not to like indies.

Uncle Tom  

A black man who will do anything to stay in good standing with "the white
man" including
betray his own people.

'Leroy is such an Uncle Tom; he told the boss I took a 2 hour lunch.'
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