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...walked down Mt. Auburn Street one afternoon, en route to his job at Mass. General, but detoured into STA Travel on a whim, rattling off a list of countries to a travel agent, and asking how much it would cost to get him to each...
...stop it,” says Shams, who is more concerned with student protection than the portraits in the dining hall. The police would have to file a report and investigate themselves. “Those are the boundaries, the line between their job and our job,” Shams explains. Layne agrees: “It’s a job for the police, not the security to handle...
...President Faust laughed, “Now, there’s a picture for ‘The Crimson.’”According to Paulus, the Common Spaces initiative reflects what she sees as one of the most important purposes of art. “The job of the arts is to wake people up and make them present in their lives,” she says. “You’re eating lunch...and all of a sudden, there’s this ‘happening’ and you?...
...Though it has been painful for him, Whitfield's lost job should have had little effect beyond his immediate family. One lost job is a microscopic event in the massive organism of the U.S. economy. In good times, America sheds 2.5 million jobs a month but creates nearly 3 million new ones. Rolling unemployment allows businesses to adjust to demand, improving efficiency and fueling growth. A healthy economy compensates job losers by creating new jobs for them. America's economic athleticism has been the envy of other countries, a key to its success...
...sharp shock of the 2008 financial crisis paralyzed the U.S. economy. Mass layoffs have been at a record high, flooding the labor market with job hunters. Six years of manufacturing-job losses were compressed into 18 months, overwhelming retraining programs. The collapse of home values and the tightening of credit make worker mobility a moot issue. Instead of connecting the jobless to new jobs, the employment system has seized up. After 33 weeks of searching for work, Whitfield is looking warily to December, when his unemployment insurance ends...