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When the ax isn't enough, out comes the scalpel. Having laid off tens of thousands of workers, corporations and small businesses are looking for new fat to trim. In September, 2,269 companies had mass layoffs, according to Sirota Survey Intelligence, each affecting 50 or more employees. But many companies are still bleeding cash and desperately searching for novel ways to eke out savings...
...balancing skills. There is a plethora of practical advice for that, just as there's no shortage of guidance when it comes to transferring assets from one generation to the next. Harder to come by is advice for parents on how to bequeath to their children not just a fat inheritance, but also the values and work ethic that produced their nest eggs in the first place. "So many wealthy families don't know anything about raising kids in a healthy environment," says Thayer Willis, author of Navigating the Dark Side of Wealth: A Life Guide for Inheritors. The daughter...
...didn't help in 1932 that the two men neither liked nor trusted each other: Hoover called Roosevelt a "chameleon on plaid," while F.D.R. preferred the image of Hoover as a "fat, timid capon." In the final days of the campaign, Hoover denounced Roosevelt's "nonsense ... tirades ... glittering generalizations ... ignorance" and "defamation" on his way to losing to him in 42 of 48 states. Since Inauguration Day was not until March 4, 1933, and with the global financial system in tatters, there was urgent need for action - but Hoover's efforts to reach out to Roosevelt in the name...
...first place. My dream vacation would begin in Venice (gondola ride, please!). My man and I would slowly eat, drink and explore our way down the boot, ending up in Palermo. My fantasy trip would last about a month and we'd fly back to the States, fat and sassy, speaking just enough Italian to impress the sommeliers at my favorite little East Village wine bar, In Vino. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...what the fat cats at the tray corporations won’t tell Joe Harvard is that it takes as much water to wash one tray as it does to wash five. FACT: That is impossible. FACT: The tray lobby was responsible for the sinking of the Spanish Armada, the Dreyfus Affair and stagflation...