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Will such opportunities persist in a postattack economic slump? Nik Theodore, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, warns, "When the economy begins to slow down, the staffing industry feels it first." But the dearth of baby-bust workers (born between 1965 and '76) may help counter the bad news. Besides, says Ann Kelleher, president of Mature Resources, an Omaha, Neb., staffing company, special factors may insulate older temp workers, especially highly skilled ones. "We see companies really valuing the work that experienced older workers bring to the table," she says...
...Brewers, tried to narrow the revenue gap by charging rich clubs a tax and redistributing the wealth to the lesser ones. But last week the owners concluded they were throwing good money after bad. They are also worried that rising debt at some clubs could cause them to go bust. By chopping two welfare teams, owners hope to improve the chances for other stragglers...
...past two months, our public conversation has changed almost beyond recognition; arguments that were unimaginable last summer are now the stuff of talk shows and chat rooms. Should we torture terrorist suspects? Embrace racial profiling? Seal the borders? Bust the budget? It may be the surest sign of a healthy democracy that in the wake of an attack that stopped a nation in its tracks, we have begun to move forward again in every direction, with less consistency but more urgency, engaged in an argument with ourselves and one another over what these times demand...
...bookstore’s mascot, a bust of Shakespeare wearing a graduation cap, sits on a cluttered wooden table...
Though he is often remembered as the villain of 1969, students who were dragged from University Hall during the police bust are less critical of the late Harvard president in retrospect...