European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 19 your Money has business casual come apart at seams by Margarita Bauza Detroit free press Detroit soon after becom ing a manager of a Luggage store in Joshua Lay instituted a for Mal dress code for his Khaki pants and Polo shirts were replaced with Button Down ties and its helped with How we Are por said of adding that some employees grumbled about having to buy new its much easier to sell a High end item if we Are dressed like the clientele we a peal More companies Are going that reversing the relaxed dress codes of the when khakis overtook suits in the in 41 percent of companies allowed casual Down from 51 percent in according to a Survey by the society for human resource this is Good news for those who Felt dress codes had gotten too lax and bad news for the people who dislike dealing with ties and not Only did people be come More casual in their cloth but they also became casual in their said Sherry immediate past president of National association of women business Judith author of dont take the last donuts new rules of business Speaks to companies about How workers should business casual is definitely a thing of the past in this most highly competitive business Bow Man lackadaisical attire looks like lackadaisical work per Good Low speeds put brakes on hydroplaning dear Tom and Ray i have a history of i Slid and rolled Over in a Gumc Jimmy while making a Sharp right turn during a rain i also have hydroplane in a jeep Cherokee while driving in a Light drizzle and going in a perfectly straight i now own a Honda what is the Best strategy for not letting it slide around Adam Ray slow Tom its hard to know what happened Click and Clack Tom and Ray Magliozzi in each but there Are Sev eral factors that often Lead to hydroplane Ray the first one is if youre going too fast and you hit standing the vehicle is going to hydroplane that the tires will not be Able to Channel enough water out through their and the tires will ride up on top of the losing their Contact with the Tom so if you drive like a Knucklehead in the whether youre going straight ahead or youre a candidate for Hydro Ray tires also can be an Knob aggressive Sun tires Are notoriously bad on wet Tom another Factor is the size of the puddle you Ray and your Fourshee drive system could have been a the Gumc Jimmy and the jeep Cherokee both have old style Onde Mand Fourshee drive systems As opposed to full time Allthee drive systems that Are never supposed to be used when driving on Normal roads dry or wet because they Force the two front wheels to turn at the same combined Speed As the pair of rear Tom if you try to steer a vehicle with out letting each of its wheels turn at differ ent you easily can lose control and flip it or you could make it hard to re gain control once you Start to got a question about cars write to Click and Clack in care of this or email them by 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