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...demographics than economics. The oldest members of the huge baby-boom generation are now 56, and as they start retiring, job candidates with the right skills will be in hot demand. As Mitch Potter of human-resources consultant William M. Mercer says, "The dotcom bubble created a false talent crunch. The real one is coming...
...certain industries, especially those in which burnout and early retirement are common and demand for services is rising, the crunch has already arrived. As the population ages, hospitals can't find enough nurses or medical technicians. Drugstores are competing to hire pharmacists, bidding some beginners' salaries above $75,000. School districts and universities will need 2.2 million more teachers over the next decade, not to mention administrators and librarians, and are already avidly recruiting. Homeowners can't get their calls returned by skilled contractors, electricians or plumbers. Corporations are scooping up accountants and engineers. For job seekers who have...
Along with this academic initiative, the report makes forward-thinking recommendations to alleviate the space crunch for student groups. It calls for an immediate increase in student office and storage space and proposes an eventual student center at the Inn at Harvard—which has a prime campus location and reverts to University control in 2013. This prospective meeting area would provide much-needed space for ethnic and cultural groups as well as other College student groups, not to mention the fact that it would finally establish a campus space where students would be able to congregate and socialize...
...touch from all areas of the floor, Nowitzki made his first All-Star team this season at 23, has seemingly eradicated the last traces of basketball prejudice against European imports - that they were too soft to play the NBA's hard-knocks style, that they'd fade away at crunch time, that a lanky finesse players from places like Wurtzburg, Germany were never going to make an impact over the American game...
Vice President Cheney has indulged in the same kind of double-talk. When Cheney's energy plan came under fire from environmental groups, he insisted that the plan "includes 11 of the Sierra Club's 12 solutions" to the energy crunch. But even a loose reading of the plans shows at most three similarities. The Sierra Club, for example, wants the country to use nonhydro renewables such as wind and solar power for 20% of its energy by 2020. Cheney, by contrast, aims for only 2.8%. "If Bush really believes these plans are similar," says Sierra Club president Carl Pope...