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...much relief in sight, even if the U.S. unemployment rate rises a bit from its 28-year low of 4.3%. In Austin, Texas, for example, the national rate is quite irrelevant. Unemployment there is officially 2.3%, and Steve Mays, director of a suburban grocery store, says only half-jokingly that it "is really minus 1.7%," given the "cannibalism" of employers' swiping workers from one another...
RECRUITING Running newspaper help-wanted ads and contacting employment agencies are nowhere near enough these days. More and more companies are turning to job fairs, where firms set up booths to tout opportunities to anyone who wanders by. Advance Micro Devices plugged an April fair in Austin in radio ads for weeks in advance, then set up a big tent to supply job information for those who wandered in while local disk jockeys played music to amuse those waiting in line. The fair was "wildly successful," and AMD hired 30 people. IBM set up recruiting tables in March in Panama...
...John L. Adams '50 criticized the College and called for Eck and Austin's resignation in a letter to The Crimson, the only such letter the newspaper received...
...looking forward to having [Eck and Austin] in the House my senior year," wrote Lowell House resident Marnie A. Friedman '99 in her May 6 letter to The Crimson. "I feel sorry for Adams, who is closing himself off from two vibrant, incredible women...
Without wasting any time after announcing the Eck-Austin appointment, Lewis the next day announced the University had filled the vacancy in Leverett House with Mallinkcrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi '67 and his wife Ann, a lab manager at Harvard Medical School...