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...Wall Street's merger machine has run out of gas, largely because corporate America has loaded up with all the debt it cares -- or dares -- to take on. Wall Street is suffering a dearth of deals, but no one is shedding tears for it. The flashy wealth displayed by investment firms has created a backlash on Main Street, which watched with mounting fury as Wall Street got rich through paper-shuffling deals that manipulated companies at the expense of workers and communities. "There's a lot of pent-up anger and disgust with behavior on Wall Street," says Samuel Hayes...
HEALTH: The dearth of birth-control methods...
Unlike civil rights activists during the '60s, current activists in black communities must face the problem of a dearth of young men while concurrently fighting racism, he said...
When asked about the dearth of female undergraduates in the sciences at a holiday reception, Wilson suggested having research fellows at the Mary Bunting Institute serve as role models for undergraduate women at Harvard-Radcliffe. She envisioned undergraduates speaking to Bunting fellows and then eventually choosing to pursue postdoctoral research at the Bunting Institute...
Amid the gravest labor shortage to afflict Japan in 15 years, the Diet has taken a step that could deepen the dearth. In a vote that critics attacked as a sign of Japanese insularity, legislators approved a crackdown on companies that employ any of the more than 100,000 unskilled illegal aliens from Bangladesh, the Philippines and other Asian nations who live in Japan. Under the measure, which contains no amnesty provision for illegal aliens who now hold jobs, firms caught hiring illegal foreign workers will be fined as much as $14,000. Employers who persist in the practice could...