Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...board, which convened recently in Manhattan, the U.S. economy should continue growing over the next year and a half at somewhere between 2% and 3% annually. That is below the sizzling 3.7% of 1997 and the phenomenal 4.8% of this year's first quarter, but near--maybe a bit above--what used to be considered sustainable for the long haul...
...workers that is a bad news-good news forecast. Unemployment will rise from the 28-year low of 4.3%, touched in April, to perhaps 5% next year. But employers will still be beating the bushes for every worker they can find, if a bit less feverishly than today. And wages will be pushed up faster than prices...
...bit of a hike for those housed in the Yard, but if you live in the Quad, it's a five-minute walk...
...never really go home. Louise Woodward touched down on English soil Thursday for the first time in 15 months of au pair-hood, trial and notoriety. "I've really missed the old place a bit," Louise said at Manchester airport, with what one reporter described as "a slight U.S. twang." But it was not the same England she left, nor the same one that supported her to the hilt during last November's trial. The tabloids are beginning to turn on Louise: "First Class Child Killer," blared the front page of Thursday's London Mirror. It was a tale with...