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...days when people gave their life to the company in return for loyalty. This is what is missing in today's economy. The workers and management have no idea of who the other is. In the process of downsizing, a lot of people are being picked up by newer firms, but what about the people whose jobs are being sent overseas or across the border? I am not looking for a controlled economy, but one in which people have a choice and a chance to do their very best in a job without having to worry about having...
...with temples, ruins and mellow boscage, populated by figures out of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Vergil's Georgics--was still very much a part of French art. Its greatest exponents, Nicolas Poussin and Lorrain, were French, and their work still cast a long shadow. But it existed alongside a newer appetite for natural vision, the direct recording of the facts of landscape, whose wellhead was the English artist John Constable...
Techniques found in an art like Aikido can stop attacks without permanently harming the opponent; Tae Kwon Do contains debilitating counterattacks. Styles such as Jujitsu (old) and Kenpo (newer) show examples of both kicks and "throws." (Practitioners, please pardon my very general definitions!) I am no expert and continue in my own understanding, but I hope those involved in the martial arts might keep the many components in mind as they progress in their studies. --A. J. Liuba Boston...
...worried that the lofty prices of some IPO shares could soon plummet. "I think we've got a bubble here," says Daniel Miller, managing director of the $20 billion Putnam group of mutual funds, based in Boston. "The first things thrown out in a bad market are the newer ipos." The risks only grow when mutual-fund managers--the institutional investors who are driving much of the stock boom--find themselves with little time to evaluate new issues. Nearly 40 new companies went public the week of Dec. 10 alone, as many as might have made their debut...
...like we're emissaries of ska. We're one of the newer bands,...but it's not like we're going out to these towns and the people at the shows are like 'Whutz this thang culled skaah...