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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Another month, another 600,000-plus jobs gone. That was the big message from the March employment report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which saw nonfarm employment drop by 663,000 and the unemployment rate rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment Rise Shows Recession Far from Over | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

Irving was once asked by a producer to drop the R, his middle initial, from the sign-off to save a second or two. IRL, as he signed his memos, responded, "I'd rather drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irving R. Levine | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...center of a labyrinth of canvasses, easels, stools, and drop cloths, Nancy Mitchnick—one of the only two studio painting teachers in the VES department—presides over her class on the third floor of the Carpenter Center. Pungent smells of fresh gesso mingle with turpentine while an eclectic mix of music sets the creative mood. With a couch and a makeshift kitchen, it is clear that many student painters view the studio as a sort of second home and Nancy, as she is fondly called, as a sort of stand-in mother. “Students...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sketchy Future for VES | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...your lives - much of which will be spent paying for our retirement, in any case - without having to hear us complain about our every ache and reflux. We'll be too busy exploring altered states of consciousness. I even have a slogan for the campaign: "Tune in, turn on, drop dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...their economy could be swept up in the global turmoil through no fault of their own. The leaders also agreed to provide an additional $250 billion in guarantees for export credits and other trade finance, which have dried up in the past few months and led to a drastic drop in global commerce. The size of these packages, plus agreement on new credit facilities from the World Bank and other multilateral lending agencies, was warmly welcomed by representatives from developing countries - including India, whose Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, said, "I am going back home very satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the G-20 Succeeded — And Why It Matters | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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