Word: mounts
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...everyone is so bearish. Kowalcyzk predicts a further decline this year of 5%. The only thing that seems certain is ongoing volatility as expectations of a U.S. recession continue to mount. Americans may get the worst of it, but Asians will certainly feel their pain...
...upwards of 140 employers. The participation of 38 consulting firms and 37 finance companies represented a strong presence at the event, though notably absent were major banks including Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, which have attended the career fair in the past. OCS’s interim director, Robin E. Mount, explained that many firms have said that the career forum would not be the best use of their recruiting budgets. Despite the turmoil on Wall Street, most recruiters interviewed said that their hiring numbers have not changed. E. Ashley Seybould, recruiting coordinator for the Fidelity Consulting Group, a subset...
...infrastructure that will help candidates up and down the ballot," says Obama spokeswoman Amy Brundage of the decision to pull out. The news isn't entirely a surprise, as Obama cut advertising in North Dakota by 50% in recent weeks. The move comes as Obama has been forced to mount more serious defenses of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin - states where the campaign spent nearly $1.5 million in television advertisements last week...
...myths about him generated by Pyongyang's tireless propaganda machine -that the real story of North Korea's leader can be hard to divine. Thus, Kim's life starts with his birth either in Siberia - where his father, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, was in exile - or on Mount Paektu, the highest point on the Korean Peninsula. In an early move to quell expected resistance to his son's succession, Kim Il Sung designated the younger Kim as the next leader of North Korea in 1980. It wasn't until 1998, however, four years after his father's death...
...Myth • The official state-sponsored account of Kim's birth on Mount Paektu contends that there were "flashes of light and thunder, the iceberg in the pond of Mount Paektu emitted a mysterious sound as it broke, and bright double rainbows rose up." • The Dear Leader likes to keep busy writing novels, producing and writing movies and playing golf - reportedly shooting 11 holes-in-one in his first attempt at the game...