Word: job
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...panel filed a 2-to-1 majority decision to keep the investigation going, in light of Starr's assurances that his office's work continues, and that it had been "unusually productive," yielding 24 indictments, 16 convictions and the impeachment of Clinton. If Starr gets his successor, the job may not last long anyway ? a Starr spokesman confirmed that the team has already begun writing their ominous (but indictment-free) final report, which Starr says will be out "as soon as is practicable," hopefully by November 2000 (watch out, Hillary). One judge (unsurprisingly, the Carter appointee, not the Nixon...
eLance has its own, radical plan for bringing employers and employees together. After watching how markets dynamically set prices for stocks, bonds and commodities, bond trader Beerud Sheth and portfolio manager Srini Anumolu figured they could transfer the same efficiency to the job market. With a global pool of talent available to bid on every project, a programmer in Moscow could win an assignment from a firm in Iowa...
Everybody, at least once in his life, wants to live in a nice small town, right? One with sidewalks, neighbors waving from their porches and a bustling central square within biking distance of your house? Trouble is, despite the growth of telecommuting, most jobs are still in cities and suburbs. That's why the late-'80s experiment of building cute little instant towns in places like Seaside, Fla., never really caught on: many of the communities were too far from major job centers. So now developers are chasing a new fashion. Rather than offer an escape from the suburbs, they...
...that it is personal and direct. "The government assistance shows up in the mailbox," says Jay Cox, a Presbyterian mentor. "We show up at the front door." And when they do, some are learning as much as they are teaching. Like how easy it is to lose a job because the car broke down and there is no public bus, or because a kid was sent home sick from school and the mother needed to be home too. "So now we're developing, just out of compassion and knowledge, a whole group of people that are becoming voices...
...There?s a poignancy to it, the fact that he?s spent six years on this quest, never held another job in all that time," he says. "And there?s also something self-delusional about it. You have some scenario in mind in which you?re about to catch fire, if only this would happen, if only that would happen. But sometimes, it never does. The voters rejected him last time, they rejected him this time. So it shouldn?t surprise us too much." It?s a sign of this year?s supercharged cycle that even a campaign as long...