Word: analysts
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...crunching financial data for agencies like the Social Security Administration. But with welfare reform, more work is opening up for private companies than ever before, setting off a welfare-management gold rush. "It's a huge revenue target for the private sector to go after," says Bernard Picchi, an analyst of growth stocks for Lehman Brothers, who estimates the potential market at more than $20 billion a year. Private firms have also been assigned the kind of front-line, person-to-person tasks they have not had in the past. In Milwaukee, Wis., Maximus has been given traditional caseworker duties...
...sweeping Main Street and Wall Street, proposed a way to end Depression-era barriers that formally separate banks, investment firms and insurers. Already, though, hard chargers like McColl are overrunning the crumbling regulatory barricades. "Hugh McColl is the General Patton of the consolidation process," says Michael Ancell, a banking analyst with the Edward Jones investment firm...
...banks are not just snapping up one another at a time when even firms like Merrill Lynch can offer federally insured deposits. "I know people who do not have a checking account with a bank anymore. They just use their brokerage accounts," says Kevin Timmons, a senior banking analyst for the First Albany investment firm. A recent survey by McKinsey & Co. found that only 49% of Americans now view their bank as their primary financial institution, down from...
Bill Bass, an analyst for Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., thinks Slate is making a mistake by taking the big hit in circulation, which will reduce ad income. "As far as I'm concerned, it's an advertising-driven business," says Bass. It is certainly a tough business. Two Webzines, Word and Charged, folded last week, and others like Feed feedmag.com and Suck suck.com are staying afloat largely by operating on a shoestring...
...segmented, but not at all discontinuous feel, much like the transition in a movie between one scene and another. In fact, the discontinuity embedded in the structure actually facilitates the reader's comprehension of intrachapter flash-backs and seemingly out-of-place transcriptions of dialogue between Sarah and her analyst. Linear narrative and a continuous stream of events are not so important to the plot as the actual events them-selves--much in the same way that the images of a dream don't present themselves in any discernible order, but when properly analyzed, make a great deal more sense...