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...include produce. Long-term employees asked for an extra week's pay instead of an extra week's vacation. (They got it.) Workers with less experience asked for quarterly, not annual, bonuses if their store met targets. (They got it.) Wal-Mart, in turn, wanted help available at peak demand in the stores, meaning nights and weekends. (Of course it got it.) The company has also instituted some wage caps...
...Unbreakable.” The album is the first new material from the Backstreet Boys in two years, and the first project since Kevin Richardson departed the group. Nothing would please me more than to report that the Backstreet Boys had produced an album that reattained their infectious pop peak, complete with shimmy-inducing songs of unrequited love and perhaps a chart-topping ballad or two. Unfortunately, those who remember the heartthrob heyday of the Backstreet Boys (who can forget the rain sequence in the music video for “Quit Playing Games With My Heart”?) will...
...that the general public has typically ignored words of caution in the press because these predictions may not reflect the current situation. “Eventually I got tired of writing how crazy the stock market was,” Norris said of the tech bubble at its peak. Frankel said that the bubble was not covered extensively in the late 1990s because journalists are more interested in projects with a more immediate impact than those with longer time frames. John D. Cella ’08 said he was encouraged by the willingness of Quinn and Norris to admit...
...years ago, I went with high expectations. China was constantly touted as the new giant of the 21st century, a country at the center of globalization and development with GDP per capita growing at an unprecedented eight percent per year. I expected to see a country in its economic peak, a country different from the one my parents experienced, one not crippled by war, famine, or the outrageous social agendas of the Cultural Revolution. But in the end, it wasn’t growth that left the deepest impression on me, but rather the consequence of growth, industrialization, and social...
...frightening possibility is that the October wildfires may be only the start - not just of future fires in future seasons but of more to come this year. The Santa Ana winds have just begun and typically peak in the winter. What's more, there is not likely to be much relief from drought conditions. The National Weather Service predicts a La Niña pattern this winter, which occurs when sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean are cooler than usual. La Niña usually translates to dryer and hotter weather in the American South...