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...Pagani plans to check in with the kids in her survey again in another six years, when they're finishing high school and preparing to enter the larger world - with its larger temptations. Even if they were born too late to benefit from her findings, she thinks other kids can. (See the best and worst mothers of all time...
...economists looked at companies with fewer than 50 employees, and those with more than 1,000, going back to the 1970s-a period that spanned four business cycles. They found that the bigger firms, after adjusting for their larger share of the workforce, account for a greater slice of job destruction during and after recessions-whether through layoffs or simply not hiring workers they would have otherwise. Immediately coming out of a recession, smaller companies were an unusually important source of new job growth, but once economic expansion really took hold, large companies resumed the role of job-creator, added...
...economic recovery because it's easy for these firms to find good workers while unemployment is still high-and easy for workers to come across small companies since there are so many of them. Once the economy is chugging along at full-steam and the labor market is tight, larger companies regain the advantage, since they're likely able to offer more money-and poach from smaller outfits...
...interrupted by the strained rock vocals of Karen O’s chorus.“Spacious Thoughts” pairs Tom Waits with veteran emcee Kool Keith over a mellow drum beat and somber piano melody. The softspoken rhymes of Kool Keith do nothing to balance the larger-than-life Waits, whose emotional delivery gives his portion of song a decidedly more sinister tone, and the song remains fragmented.The problems in “The Spirit of Apollo,” however, are not found in the individual performances of the album’s many contributors. In fact...
...particular accusations of high worker injury rates, anti-union intimidation, and low wages, according to John F. Bowman ’11, one of the protest’s organizers. Bowman said that Harvard has at least $69.9 million invested in HEI, though the actual investment may be larger. The students launched the protest following a joint meeting with Yale and Brown two weeks before Valentine’s Day. Representatives from the three schools met in Providence and decided to organize the protest in order to show student solidarity for the movement against the company. HEI Hotels draws approximately...