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...were some of the questions posed to 1,200 American workers in a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive from Feb. 25-27. Fully 28% of respondents said they would act immorally - including lying or backstabbing - to keep their jobs. The survey was commissioned by Adecco, the world's largest staffing-solutions company, which oversees 700,000 employees around the world in any given week. The company wanted to know how the recession has affected people's attitudes toward their career and job prospects, which are, of course, getting only dimmer - since last fall, the number of available jobs...
Japan's ability to meet these challenges is of more than local interest. The nation is the world's second largest economy and the U.S.'s key ally in Asia. And given Japan's recent economic history, the way in which it copes with the current crisis could provide some insights into how the rest of the world can get through it as well...
...LaRoe. The one he founded in 1999, he sold to a larger company in 2006, quadrupling investors' money. This time around, he lined up $24 million in commitments in three months. Then came IndyMac. On July 11, the FDIC moved to take over the nation's seventh largest savings and loan, a casualty of aggressive home lending and one of the biggest bank failures in U.S. history. Images of depositors lining up to pull their money out of the bank flooded the media...
House Culture: Tepid. As the largest house, and one that happens to be divided amongst four non-adjoining buildings (including Dewolfe), it's got to be tough to build a defining house culture. Add to that the fact that many just don’t want to rep shirts that prominently feature these, and it certainly gets tougher. The Stein clubs are, in a word, WEAK. And Lev really lacks those iconic rooms that drive a healthy party scene (those of you who are of party grant age, do you ever remember a Lev party really turning it out?). FlyBy...
...Provisional IRA, the largest and deadliest of the republican paramilitary organizations, declared a cease-fire in 1997 and formally ended its armed campaign in 2005. Sinn Fein has transformed itself from a fringe party to the dominant political party in the Catholic community, and the second largest in Northern Ireland. Former IRA leader Martin McGuinness serves as Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland's devolved government. "I supported the IRA during the conflict. I myself was a member of the IRA, but that war is over," said McGuinness in a strong condemnation of the renewed violence. "[The dissidents] are clearly...