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...from the steel doors pops Andy Allen, the executive chef of the HUDS Culinary Support Group (CSG), who leads us through the loading dock and down the stairs into a place that could be mistaken for a modest industrial facility...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Journey to the Center of HUDS | 3/4/2004 | See Source »

...ever increasing sophistication in low-wage countries. Some have also blamed trade-liberalization deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which the Labor Department estimates was responsible for the loss of more than 500,000 U.S. jobs between 1994 and 2002. That's a significant number but modest in comparison with the millions of jobs that are created and lost annually in the constant churn of the U.S. economy. Indeed, much of the job loss during the recent U.S. recession was cyclical in nature. But in recent years, one noteworthy segment of the economy began suffering from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: '04 The Issues: Is Your Job Going Abroad? | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...jail for a heist Tony Soprano was supposed to be on. Determined to go straight, "Tony B." is driving a linen-delivery truck while working to become a licensed massage therapist. It sounds like comic relief, and in a way it is, but Tony B., clinging to his modest dream, is also a poignant figure, Tony Soprano's sad-sack but decent alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Welcome Back, Capos | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...lies at an improbable angle across the bedding, but the very awkwardness of her position gives her weight within the picture, and by extension, the world. Even when, in The Ancestors of Tehamana, he painted the same girl more conventionally, in an upright and frontal pose and a modest Western dress, he placed her before a stylized background of native spirits and glyphic letters borrowed from the Rongorongo tablets of Easter Island. Those tablets have never been fully decoded. Neither has Gauguin. But the power of his mysteries brings us back to him over and over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Man Who Sailed Away | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...COMCAST This cable operator owns a modest amount of television programming, including E! Entertainment Television, the Style Network, the Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Network, Comcast SportsNet and CN8--Comcast Network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comcast-Disney: Putting The Parts Together | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

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