Word: collared
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STEP 1: ADMIT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. Mark Ellwood, author of Cut the Glut of E-Mail, calculates that white-collar workers waste an average of three hours a week just on sorting through junk mail. If you spend any more than that, you had better read...
...STEP 1: ADMIT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. Mark Ellwood, author of Cut the Glut of E-Mail, calculates that white-collar workers waste an average of three hours a week just on sorting through junk mail. If you spend any more than that, you had better read...
...Palermo has given out its share of degress to mobsters' sons in recent years. Professor Giovanni Santangelo, vice-rector at the university, said the Mafia's move into the mainstream makes it both more invisible and more powerful. "The sons of mafiosi today, with rare exception, are all white-collar. They are programmed to be so." Santangelo says that in the past, university degrees were turned into law careers to provide a small army of legal defenders. "They've already got enough lawyers. They're diversifying," he says, into public fund administrators (to dip into billions of dollars of European...
...described by Mueller, will shift its focus to "prevention above all else." The emphasis will move from law enforcement to intelligence and counter-terrorism, and agents will be reassigned from domestic units (where the emphasis is on drug-related and white-collar crime) to ones dealing in terror prevention. The director also wants to add 900 new employees, 500 of whom would work as analysts. This is a sea change for the embattled agency - and an answer to critics who maintain it has wasted its manpower on following up traditional crime rather than preventing new waves of terror. But will...
...elections. State Attorney General Mike Fisher is the unopposed Republican choice. But he's considered an underdog to both Democratic candidates, Bob Casey Jr. and Ed Rendell. The two Democrats are better known. Casey is the son of a former governor and has the support of upstate blue-collar Democrats. He's pro-labor and pro-life. Ed Rendell is the pragmatic former Philadelphia mayor who appeals to the state's New Democrats and independents. These two candidates have been locked in a dead heat for months. And no matter who wins their May 21st primary, that nominee is predicted...