Word: arens
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...which President Clinton addressed, was a three-day lovefest between advocates for welfare recipients and labor-strapped companies seeking to hire them. Among the most surreal moments: a session on "Finding Welfare Recipients for Your Training Programs," at which social workers bellyached that in these boom times there just aren't enough welfare moms to go around...
Since the talent market launched a month ago, some 35,000 customers, from programmers to Elvis impersonators, have filled out their profiles, eagerly awaiting an offer they can't refuse. Unlike traditional auctions, though, bids aren't binding--there is more to picking a new boss than simply finding the right salary. So once the auction period ends--anywhere from one to five days--an accepted bid sets the stage to close the deal. "It gives you a starting point," says David Braverman, of Woodmere, New York, who runs a marketing agency and, after a week on the site...
Surprisingly, most of his targets agree with Bruer--to a point. "It's quite true," says Dr. Charles Nelson, a neuroscientist at the University of Minnesota, "that there aren't any studies looking at brain development in young children." And Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, an educational organization whose advice-laden website is a target of Bruer's ire, acknowledges that "there have been some who have stretched the science...
...York Times on Wednesday, making clear his displeasure with the current options -? and admitting even he doesn?t feel he?s presidential timber. "There certainly should be someone better. That's not to say that I don't have very strong feelings on a lot of things that aren't being spoken...
...PermanentlyFortune Investor DataDay-trading, either done independently or under the umbrella of firms that set up clients with high-speed equipment and a trading room in exchange for commissions, is certainly a dangerous game. "The markets move very fast, and something like 90 percent of people who try this aren?t successful," says TIME Wall Street columnist Dan Kadlec. But failure isn?t against the law, and after the report?s release, trading firms were scrambling to remind regulators -? and the public -? that a few unscrupulous apples aside, what they sell isn?t any different than a job at Merrill...