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...relentless cost cutting by everyone from mom-and-pop businesses to such corporate giants as IBM and General Motors could undermine the recovery. While workers who lost jobs in previous slumps often came right back when things looked up, much of the current downsizing has been permanent. "All kinds of companies have got new religion about cost control," says William Melton, chief economist for Minneapolis-based IDS Financial Services. "And this will really have an impact on job creation." Thus many middle managers and blue- collar workers alike could have little chance of returning to work unless they change careers...
...board alleged that she used unconventionalmethods to treat Lozano--that she aided his beliefthat she was his "mom," and that she wrote"explicit fantasies that may have related...
Country ran in his family. His mom, Colleen Carroll Brooks, was a '50s-era singer who performed with Red Foley on Ozark Jubilee. When he married his sweetheart Sandy Mahl in 1986, he confesses, "it was the last thing I wanted to do. I hated being tied down." But it was Mahl who kept his hope alive when he wanted to quit Nashville for a while, look for a regular job back home in Oklahoma and maybe try the music business again later. "I'm not makin' this trip every year," she told him. "Either we're diggin...
Hollywood is stuck on sentences as movie titles. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead have given way to This Is My Life, I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Coming soon: We're Back and Death Becomes Her. Expect overburdened multiplex marquees to resort to alphabet-soup abbreviations...
...drugs on street corners. What little education he has came in bits and pieces; he has missed so much school he'll have to repeat the eighth grade. "I didn't really drop out, but I haven't been going to school much," he says. "For a while my mom told me to get up and go to school, but she really doesn't say nothing about it anymore...