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This weekend may be of particular importance depending on how Harvard regoups after exams. After the Ivy rivals depart, Harvard does not play again until the last day of January. In the past, the layoff has had disastrous effects on Harvard hockey seasons. A year ago, the Crimson went 1-6-1 in the eight games following break, a tail spin that only really ended when the ECAC tournament began...
...Whitman, at No. 6, was more of a concern, as he had only one day of practice under his belt after an eight-week layoff...
...been bruised and confused. There's nowhere to run, and you're in pain, without anyone. You've got a lot to learn; do you know where you can turn? Mariah Carey--fragile workaholic, recovering star of Glitter, multimillion-dollar record-company layoff and author of wounded banalities like those above--would like you to turn...
...future looks just as spooky. Even as sales pick up at many firms, top executives fear that business in 2003 will remain shaky. With inflation dead, most have no power to raise prices, and they see cost cuts--especially layoffs--as one of the few ways to eke out profits. Companies have already cut 1.2 million jobs this year through October--that's about 3,600 a day--according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the Chicago outplacement firm. Sun Microsystems, Boeing, McDonald's and J.P. Morgan Chase have announced that they will slash thousands more jobs in coming months, and many...
...surprisingly, any increased productivity gleaned from the sweat of a layoff-decimated work force results in plenty of grousing. Manufacturing workers call ghost work "speed-up" (because the remaining employees have to hustle harder) or "stretch-out" (because of the longer hours). "They call it productivity," says Lane Windham, an AFL-CIO spokesman, referring to management...