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...every other part of the economic fabric. Even when an economy is at its worst, some small set of firms which usually have capital and a need for workers find that labor costs are so low that the risks of bringing in a new person or people is extremely modest. And, of course, if the burden of employing new workers is too great or the company's prospects turn worse, the most recent people hired are often the first people fired...
...Limits of Prudence Orman's personal story is an important part of the product she's selling. She grew up in a modest household on the South Side of Chicago, where her father ran a deli. She dropped out of the University of Illinois (she later finished her degree) and spent six years waitressing in Berkeley, Calif. After losing $50,000 she had been lent to a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, she became a Merrill broker herself. She launched her own financial-planning company in 1987 and then wrote her first book, You've Earned It, Don't Lose...
...things are going well I think I could be a power bat for the ball club,” Prince says. “Hopefully getting up with guys on base and driving them in.”Using his former pull-happy swing, Prince managed a modest .206 batting average as a sophomore. But, as the lefty has focused on “ironing out” his swing, teammates have begun to notice a difference.“[Prince’s] swing has been looking really good,” Crimson captain Harry Douglas says...
...surf-and-turf menu but whose selling point is that its walls automatically change out like set decorations to give the room an entirely different look every so often. Impressive, if pointless. There's a steak place called Botero that displays works by the Colombian artist and a more modest joint called Café Society. We dined at Wynn's signature restaurant, Sinatra, named for ole you-know-who, a Wynn pal. If you like Sinatra's music, the restaurant is a calm, beautiful setting in which to enjoy it. Better yet, the chef, Theo Schoenegger (yes, he's Italian...
...Geithner do on Tuesday? To judge by the stock market, which dropped 4% in the wake of his Feb. 10 speech and has largely stayed on its downward trajectory since then, he survived. The Dow rallied from a 13-year low just before he began testifying to a modest gain afterward, then finished the day down again, but by just under 40 points and well off its lows. So much for Florida Republican Ginny Brown-Waite's assertion that every time Geithner speaks in public, "the stock market plummets...