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...7city Learning, which assists financial firms in training recruits, says a number of the company's clients are doubling the length of their new employee development programs in order to accomodate more people. Also, in their recent survey, 7city found that half of the 36 large financial firms they asked said they planned to hire 20% more junior employees than a year...
...with the world's third largest economy. Meanwhile, Japan, the world's No. 2 economy, has been calling for a more "equal" (read: less submissive) relationship with the U.S. That's because the Democratic Party of Japan, which came to power last year for only the second time in half a century, won votes by pledging to break with past governments that hewed too closely to American foreign policy. (See pictures of President Obama visiting Asia...
...outnumbered by pawnbrokers. During lunchtime on a crisp Monday at Albemarle & Bond, Nicola - she doesn't wish to give her surname - 26, white and unemployed, holds a fistful of rings. "Can I get 10 quid for this?" she asks. After haggling with the assistant, she leaves with half that sum, passing a display case of trinkets earlier customers failed to redeem, including a clutch of diamanté rings spelling out the word Mum. Sentimentality is an indulgence nobody in Dagenham can afford. (See pictures of the U.K. at home...
...hopes to renovate and move into their state-of-the-art facilities in early 2011—a project that will cost more than 18 and a half million dollars, with the move itself costing one million dollars, according to MCZ Director James Hanken...
...designed and built as a zoology museum, and now it’s going to be split in half and other departments are moving in here—and that to me is really sad,” said curatorial associate Judith Chupasko in an interview last year. “I really love the space here...It bums...