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...work as free agents. A Congressional Research Service study shows that nearly 2.4 million pensioners in their mid-50s or older had jobs last year, 13% more than in 1994. Some retirees return to former employers; others establish second careers. But many, like Korpi, prefer shorter stints as fill-ins or consultants, and in recent years there's been rapid growth in the placement companies that cater to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: A Choice Contract | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...life will go on. The NNG pipeline will simply change hands, and probably get more attention from Dynegy than Enron ever gave it. Other energy retailers, starting with Dynegy, will happily fill in the trading space - that's what markets do. And Enron, once No. 7 on the FORTUNE 500, will file for bankruptcy, sell off its assets, and very likely disappear, having found (like derivatives-slinger Long-Term Capital Investment of yesteryear) that in the high-wire life of trading for profits, too much leverage, too-clever accounting and a few bad breaks can be a lethal combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drowning in Red Ink, Enron Nears Fading to Black | 11/28/2001 | See Source »

...main concern is trying to fill in the blanks between when he left [and when the car was found],” Norris said...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt and Elisabeth S. Theodore, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: In Memphis, Hunt for Wiley Continues | 11/27/2001 | See Source »

Groups of students found activities—including trips to the mall or to movies—to fill their time...

Author: By Jeslyn A. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hundreds Spend Holiday at Harvard | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...Fortune or Institutional Investor ranks your firm Number 1 in mergers and acquisitions, then who cares if you’re not making money? By outsourcing such work to vast pools of labor that will work for pennies, and then by recruiting more and more Harvard students to fill in the gaps, you’ll have a potentially unlimited workforce, guaranteeing that on all deals your firms do (outsourced, of course!), your name will be on the coveted left side of the WSJ tombstone...

Author: By Alex F. Rubalcava, | Title: Recruit This, McKinsey | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

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