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According to State Police officials, the helicopter took off at approximately 9:30 a.m. from the State Police's helipad on Nashua Street in Boston and was heading for Norwood Airport...
That will be particularly tough on layoff victims because many of the positions they lose are unlikely to reappear. "We've never been in a situation quite like this," says Janet Norwood, the former U.S. commissioner of labor statistics. "It used to be that when we had a recession, everyone would wait to be rehired. But the psychology now is that many of these jobs are not going to come back." White-collar workers are feeling the pinch as never before. Harvard economist James Medoff points out that white-collar employees constitute 36% of the country's unemployed workers, compared...
...long run, the relentless downsizing could pay dividends in the form of a more productive and competitive economy. "We're honing down and becoming more efficient," Norwood says. "In some ways, that is good for us. But it's a painful process. You can't get anywhere without economic expansion, and you can't have growth without creating more jobs. It's a vicious cycle." For the moment, at least, Americans may have little choice but to hope that the pain they endure today will produce some gain tomorrow, or perhaps the day after...
...start at the beginning, which for these purposes is last January 27th at Tampa Stadium, when Scott Norwood's 47-yard field-goal attempt sailed two feet wide of the right goal post. That miss handed the New York Giants a 20-19 win over the Bills, who were playing in their first Super Bowl...
...Norwood will miss an extra point, but the Bills will still...