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...afford to wait. The longer someone is unemployed, the harder it is to get back to work, a fact as true for the nation as it is for you and me. As the Peterson Institute's Jacob Kirkegaard explains, "It is entirely possible that what started as a cyclical rise in unemployment could end up as an entrenched problem." Past crises have illustrated that lesson: the longer you wait, the harder it is to contain. This is as true for joblessness as it was for subprime mortgages, al-Qaeda and computer viruses...
...people lost - largely in agriculture - never came back. Workers had to move to the industrial sector, a transition helped by the demands of a war. It was massive national hysteresis. Sound familiar? "A lot of the jobs that have been lost will never come back," the Peterson Institute's Kirkegaard says. Which means that hiccup in Okun's law is a warning: growth alone won't employ America again...
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...worked at Kirkegaard and Associates, a Chicago-based acoustics firm, where he designed the outdoor sound system for Seiji Ozawa Hall at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Hammond also worked on the acoustics of Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory...
...hung awkwardly in public view, but instead are hidden in the ceiling and recessed behind slats in the walls. New halls usually take some time before they sort themselves out acoustically: at first hearing it appears that the Ordway's sound, designed by Acoustician R. Lawrence Kirkegaard of Chicago, is rich and clear, and not plagued by the spottiness and dullness that first afflicted Davies Hall and continues to mar the contemporaneous Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto...