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...malaise may be here to stay, even if big outfits like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development say otherwise. (On Wednesday, the OECD joined the list of optimistic forecasters, saying that economic growth would return in 2010 and be better than the organization had expected just three months ago...
...Many mid-market employers are focusing their recruiting efforts on general management positions as well as sales and marketing, says Mickey Matthews, who directs North American operations for Stanton Chase, a Dallas-based recruiting firm with 2008 revenues of $65 million. "Eighteen months ago companies might have been looking at supply chain management or their global procurement team," says Matthews, "but now they're looking for lead sales and marketing people. Most clients feel we're going to be out of this [recession] by the end of the year, and they want to have the right sales leadership so they...
That's due in large part to a set of self-imposed safety standards that the ASMBS created several years ago. The society generated criteria for safety and quality of care, and invited all bariatric centers to meet them. Once centers met the standards - which include providing state-of-the-art equipment for operations as well as protocols for following up and measuring the outcomes of the surgeries - the centers were subjected to a site inspection. Upon passing, they earned certification as an ASMBS Center of Excellence...
...reached a point where I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong. I therefore asked my husband to leave two weeks ago. This trial separation was agreed to with the goal of ultimately strengthening our marriage." -Jenny Sanford, in a statement released after her husband publicly admitted to his affair (AP, June...
...herself a savvy politico who was instrumental in her husband's rise from real estate broker to U.S. Representative to governor, had known of the affair for about five months. In her own statement on June 24, she said that while she had asked Sanford to leave two weeks ago - the reason she herself didn't know where he was the past week - the couple has agreed to a "trial separation with the goal of ultimately strengthening our marriage." But in a dig at Sanford, she added, "I will continue to pour my energy into raising our sons...