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There was no mood change in the country, only one in the narrow political calculations of its major political players: a Republican Congress with a slim majority desperate to play to the activists who will turn out in the fall, a White House too distracted and declawed by scandal to fight and an electorate too content to complain much...
...skill sets are in demand because of what Hofrichter of Hay Group calls "almost another industrial revolution." He explains that companies in their quest to become lean and mean have combined old jobs and put together work teams to the point that they no longer look for narrow skills but instead for workers who can do what used to be two or three jobs...
...been rising less rapidly because of a slowdown in the rate of increase in health-insurance costs. But now that rate is speeding up again. The resulting squeeze on payrolls is not disastrous but may soon be enough to prompt employers to lay off workers as their profit margins narrow. That is a major reason why most board members expect unemployment to rise at least slightly from its present remarkable lows...
QUINCY JONES (1933- ) Two months before Miles Davis' jazz-rock hybrid Bitches Brew came out in 1969, Jones released Walking in Space, a jazz-R.-and-B.-pop Fusion album that let air into the narrow confines of purist jazz. Jones would drift farther from his jazz roots, eventually producing Michael Jackson's Thriller album, but Walking in Space helped open the door to the electric-jazz...
...narrow question of whether dualadmissions--this idiosyncratic arrangement--is aplus or a minus," McGrath Lewis says, "I wouldhave to count it not as an asset...