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...Carey, 31, was admitted on July 25 to a Westchester County, N.Y., hospital suffering from what her publicist, Cindi Berger, calls "an emotional and physical breakdown." The tabloids said Carey entered the hospital with her hands bandaged, as if she had attempted suicide--an account denied by the ambulance driver who took her there...
...inventory, the prospect of a cash infusion from the sale of their factories to EMS companies is especially appealing. "We used to have to fight and plead for companies to divest assets to us," says Dave Fargnoli, a director of finance at Flextronics. "Now we're in the driver's seat because they are rushing to off-load them." Marks, a salesman to the bone, tells potential customers: "You can be a market-leading company and not make a single thing." Why not, he adds with a grin, let Flextronics make your products for you? "The venture-capital guys...
...plan have to show up every morning just as if they still had jobs. Ulf Westergren, director of production support at Ericsson, says that among other benefits the outplacement system helps dispel the depression that often comes with job loss. Masifi has decided he wants to be a bus driver, which pays roughly the same salary as his Ericsson job. So he will take a course, arranged by the outplacement program, to get a bus driver's license. "I think it's a good deal," he says of the severance plan. "It's a safety net." In Sweden there...
...silent anger in the eyes of nearly everyone who works here—the techies who ride the buses, the bankers who walk the streets, even the cabbies who plague the roads (“So damn hard to get a fare these days,” a driver once growled to me)—and they all have stories to tell of not even just fortunes lost, but of simple difficulties making ends meet when businesses are cutting back, prices are still sky high and the end is nowhere in sight...
...slowly beginning to realize that maybe this seemingly unwarranted faith that Jay has in my driving abilities is a good thing. I am actually becoming a confident driver, and the thought of me driving a car doesn’t seem so ridiculous anymore...