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...markets, the fallout is more fundamental - it attacks the very set of assumptions by which investors place their bets, and a lot of those bets are now being pulled off the table. This too shall pass - and Congress and the SEC willing, it might even provide the impetus for some much-needed regulatory renovation. But while Enron is in the news every day - and as Democrats spend the spring making absolutely sure of that - the rise, fall, and posthumous flogging of Enron could be one more thing keeping the much-anticipated economic recovery on a slow track...
...generation, predicts that retirement will look different for boomers. The first retirement communities in the early '60s responded to "a desire on the part of many older adults for a new sense of community in a society where age had become a stigma," he says. Today, he suggests, the impetus toward new forms of community has more to do with the extent to which people derived their identity and social connections from work. "Our research shows that what people miss more than anything else in later life is what they got from work: not only a sense of purpose...
However, five of seven of the students and workers on the committee wrote in our concurrence to the report, we strongly believe these recommendations did not go far enough because they failed to acknowledge fully the impetus behind the living wage campaign, which was that some wages and working conditions are simply unacceptable...
...most able—not simply the most affluent—in their field of study, Harvard should expand its graduate financial aid program. President Lawrence H. Summers has brought a new sense of purpose to this effort, and Brown’s move should provide even greater impetus to reach this goal as quickly as possible...
...economists’ predictions might be true: the worst might almost be over already. Our success in Afghanistan has boosted American morale, and consumer demand for new technology might very well be the impetus to push us out of the red again. But there is another reason why we shouldn’t be in a panic that it’s Nov. 29 already and we still haven’t secured a job for ourselves. In truth, we should only realize our luck at being relatively carefree, unrestrained 22-year olds stepping out into the working world...