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...This was the fourth straight month with job losses greater than 600,000. In fact, the biggest news in the report may have been the sharp upward revision to January's job losses (originally reported as 598,000) to 741,000, the biggest one-month decline in absolute terms since 1949. Job losses from this recession are now markedly worse than those during the previous two downturns that had competed for the title "worst since the Depression." Nonfarm employment has dropped by 5.1 million, or 3.7%, since its peak in December 2007. In the 1981-82 recession, employment fell...
...would not generate the greatest savings—two-thirds of her salary is paid by grants earmarked for certain types of research.“I think about it every day. I think, oh God, why don’t I just take the early retirement? But the fact is I can’t take $3000 a month for the rest of my life,” the individual said. “I have to take a chance.”In February, the University announced its early retirement incentive program for staffers at least 55 years...
Flybyblog has one prediction for next year: student groups on campus will proliferate--this, judging by the fact that the Class of 2013 currently has six functioning(ish) Facebook groups. Since those 13ers just can’t choose, Flyby sees it as our duty to help the Class of 2013 choose the one, true, official Class of 2013 group. Here are our four favorites ranked in order from If-you-join-this-group-your-a-newb to very-respectable-Facebook-showing...
...April 3 news article "Worker Injured in Fogg Construction" incorrectly stated that the worker injured was with the Swedish construction firm Skanska, based on information from Andrew B. McCabe, the president of Joseph P. McCabe Inc., another construction firm working with Harvard. In fact, the worker injured was working for Preservation Timber Framing, Inc., according to University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall...
Inhofe, Sen. James •doubtfulness of that global warming "really exists" is validated for by the fact that Oklahoma "had the largest snowstorm in the history of Marches three days...