Friday, May 04, 2007
Generous expat packages - a relic of boom times
Times have been tough. But despite signs that an economic pickup has been slowly taking hold, lavish expat benefit packages have largely disappeared as companies and governments move to crack down on costs. Mary Kissel, of CareerJournalEurope.com, reports on the trend to no-frills foreign assignments.
Read more: ExpatsWord of the Day: redound
redound \rih-DOWND\, intransitive verb:
1. To have a consequence or effect.
2. To return; to rebound; to reflect.
3. To become added or transferred; to accrue.
Even if we don't officially round them up, as we did with Japanese Americans in World War II, the unofficial acts of meanness and hatred against those who look like our blood enemies are likely to redound to our shame. -- William Raspberry, "Worse to Come", Washington Post, September 15, 2001