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Even with an Ivy League degree, AN M.B.A. and 15 years of successful marketing experience, I have found employers in the hot areas you profiled (including health care and professional services) unwilling to consider management candidates from outside those fields, even when they meet or exceed all other job requirements. I'll continue to hope for a more robust economic turnaround while mulling over the ups and downs of opening a gourmet shop. JEROME FUNARO Baltimore...
...proposing policies on national security, Medicare and the economy, many of the Democratic presidential hopefuls have now started to include financial incentives for post-secondary education in their platforms. Their proposals seem timely given the ever-rising costs of a higher education—some private school tuitions now exceed $40,000, just a few thousand dollars shy of the median salary for an American worker. If these costs don’t dissuade many students from attending post-secondary schools, they often burden students and their families with immeasurable debt. Study after study affirms the financial and occupational benefits...
Because of extended hours, so goes the argument, small establishments that need to hire more staff will potentially lose money if Sunday profits don’t exceed their added operating costs. However, as State Representative Peter J. Larkin indicated, liquor stores will not be forced to open their doors on Sundays; and, to further deflate concerns for small businesses, only those establishments with seven or more full-time workers will be made to pay the requisite time-and-a-half wage to Sunday workers...
...rice farmer is known as John Doe No. 8 in a lawsuit in which he and 14 other unnamed victims accuse Unocal of "aiding and abetting" abuses carried out by Burmese soldiers. The villagers, assisted by American labor activists, have asked U.S. courts to award damages that could exceed $1 billion. How Unocal fares in a trial starting this week in a California state court and in federal litigation will be closely watched, because the oil company is just one of many big U.S. companies facing similar court cases, a potential minefield for multinationals. Other targets include Fresh Del Monte...
...rice farmer is known as "John Doe No. 8" in a lawsuit in which he and 14 other unnamed victims accuse Unocal of "aiding and abetting" abuses carried out by Burmese soldiers. The villagers, assisted by American labor activists, have asked U.S. courts to award damages that could exceed $1 billion. How Unocal fares in a trial scheduled for December in a California state court and in federal litigation will be closely watched because the oil company is just one of many big U.S. companies facing similar court cases, a potential minefield for multinationals that do business in unsavory nations...