Word: marching
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...imagining it, according to Sylvia Lafair, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology whose book Don't Bring It to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success (Jossey-Bass) was released in March. Lafair's research shows that, much as we like to believe that our behavior is entirely rational and governed by our conscious mind, our thoughts and actions are often driven by the roles we learned in our families as children. And under pressure, we tend to revert to old patterns. That fellow standing at the watercooler telling tasteless jokes at the top of his lungs, for instance, probably...
...woes are twofold. First, developers are having a hard time selling new units because of the glut in resales. At the same time, the seized-up credit markets are making it difficult for developers to securitize loans they provide buyers. Defaults on time-share loans climbed to 12% in March from 8% at the end of 2008, which has spooked lenders. This means developers lack cash to lend...
...gobbled up farmland--and now we're stuck with them for decades to come. Let's hope that when the world economy recovers, the monster vehicles will remain on scrap heaps, builders won't build monstrosities and people won't forget their enthusiasm for the simpler, purer life. Joan March, NEWARK...
...passing a bill that fits the confines of a pay-as-you-go budget that a coalition of 30 organizations pushing for health-care reform - including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, organized labor, the drug lobby, AARP and organizations representing hospitals, doctors and patients - wrote a letter in March asking lawmakers to suspend the rule with respect to health-care reform. But officials at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue say that would be political suicide at a time of record deficits - and a guarantee that Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats would not support the plan...
...region, from Japan to Singapore, has seen exports contract sharply, usually by eye-popping double-digits. Taiwan registered year-over-year declines of more than 20% for five straight months starting in November. China saw year-over-year declines of more than 17% in January, February and March. Millions of Asians lost their jobs as tens of thousands of factories were closed...