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...right environment for new employment opportunities are simple to understand. The first is that not every enterprise can operate with half the number of people it had a year ago. In many cases it is simply impractical. A factory that still has the number of orders a twelve-hour shift of twenty people produced cannot do that work with ten people. Someone from the company retires, gets ill, quits, or, saints preserve us, finds a better job somewhere else. That person has to be replaced and can probably be replaced for less pay than the person who left. The number...
...water now. They look at a line of two thousand people at a job fair that might have forty positions available in total and tell themselves that it is too good to be true. But, it isn't. Those PhDs will actually take a job for $10 an hour. It may be the only way that they can survive...
...companies, Deborah Haile, payment coordinator at the San Antonio Kidney Disease Center, where Pat went for treatment, has pretty much figured out the system. So when I put in my first desperate call to her, on Aug. 20, 2008, she offered to make another run at Assurant. Within an hour, Haile called back, her voice bristling with anger. "Cancel that policy," she advised me. "Your brother is wasting his money on premiums, and he's going to need...
...court can take up to 90 more days to issue its ruling, and questions during oral arguments do not always accurately reflect the thinking of individual justices. But Thursday's three-hour session did indicate that the primary argument advanced against Prop. 8 faces big hurdles in the court. Even the lawyers who are asking the court to declare Prop. 8 invalid because it is more like a constitutional revision - which would require approval by lawmakers as well as by voters - conceded, when asked by the court, that there is essentially no precedent in the court's history that directly...
...that was when I realized another strange thing about Mutannabi Street - over the course of an hour, among the many pedestrians strolling along Baghdad's artery, I had seen only one pair of women...