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This year's recruiting season may feel longer, more competitive, and more painful for soon-to-be-minted MBAs than any in recent memory. Amid pervasive market uncertainty, admissions officers and students at business schools around the country say the recruiting climate has shifted noticeably, particularly in the financial sector. "Uncertainty is the buzzword," says Deanna M. Fuehne, Director of the Career Management Center at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management. "Consulting firms and banks are worried that clients may pull projects and deals. Company recruiters are worried about staff reductions. So it's become a game...
...blasphemous legal battle finally met with defeat, as the inability to contact the plaintiff overcame the senator’s quixotic fervor and a judge denied his request for a judgment. But, in the legislator’s defense, his justification for the lawsuit has generally been lost amid the frenzied media coverage...
Such behavior was little tolerated by the region's early settlers, who would cheerfully shoot the reptiles on sight - all the more eagerly once the market for their skins began to grow. But in 1971, amid fears for the species' survival, hunting crocodiles was outlawed. Croc numbers have since recovered, but whenever a human dies in an attack - about once a year in Australia - a row erupts over whether protecting such a deadly predator is justified...
...1960s, the Charlesview Apartments were born amid fervent community protests, built upon the rubble of homes razed in the name of urban renewal...
...flip side of "You can't take it with you" is the notion that our money problems end with death. But amid Britain's deepening financial woes, that may no longer be true: The National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) has warned that unburied bodies of the deceased are piling up as a result of the credit crisis...