Word: hirings
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...same time, Americans' real wages (after inflation) have finally started to move up after three decades of declines or stagnation, as labor shortages force employers to pay premiums to hire and retain workers. "Wealth is the icing on the cake, but it's wages that bake the cake," says Diane Swonk, deputy chief economist at the bank First Chicago NBD. These gradual earnings gains might signal an increase in inflation, because compensation makes up the bulk of most employers' expenses. But the glory of the economy today is its remarkable balance. While labor costs are indeed rising, they are largely...
Officially, Lowell will serve as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, John Conyers. But the decision to hire him for what could be the highest-profile legal-defense job in a generation was made in large part by Richard Gephardt, the House minority leader, and two other committee Democrats, Barney Frank and Howard Berman. The goal, say insiders, was to bring in someone capable of fighting a partisan war on a legal battlefield. "This situation doesn't call for a law-school dean, former-judge type," says a source familiar with the decision. "This could...
...handle the film, with Small Soldiers director JOE DANTE and others chatted up before the SEC filing. Apted, whose well-known films include Nell and Coal Miner's Daughter, has never made an action picture, and his selection seemed a curious, almost desperate choice. "They needed a director for hire," says an agent whose client was also approached for a Bond gig. "With these films, it's not about creating art; it's about making the release date." And perhaps appropriately supporting an asset. Bond 19 is scheduled to debut...
...scene in Montreal in late July included lots of late-night shots of whiskey, 100 comics being ignored by the public while Emmanuel Lewis (TV's Webster) signed autographs and veteran dork-for-hire comic Kevin Meaney dropped his fake high voice to brag about a development meeting. The business of comedy was summed up by festival standout Mitch Hedberg, who was introduced as a comedian "seen on David Letterman." He said, "Four million people watch that show, and I don't know where the hell they are. I believe more people have seen me at the store. Which would...
...handle the film, with "Small Soldiers" director Joe Dante and others chatted up before the SEC filing. Apted, whose well-known films include "Nell" and "Coal Miner?s Daughter", has never made an action picture, and his selection seemed a curious, almost desperate choice. ?They needed a director for hire,?? says an agent whose client was also approached for a Bond gig. ?With these films, it?s not about creating art; it?s about making the release date.?? And perhaps appropriately supporting an asset. Bond 19 is scheduled to debut...