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Everyone knows about unemployment. But millions of working Americans are now facing a less familiar and perhaps more troubling problem: shrinking wages. It's a phenomenon that takes many forms. Some workers, like Raphaely, have had to swallow outright pay cuts. Others have lost their jobs and, in the tough labor market of today, have had to settle for new ones at less pay. Still others--including employees at such giants as AT&T, Boise Cascade and Starwood Hotels--have had to accept pay freezes that, when rising prices are factored in, amount to reduced compensation. To add insult...
...year-old Leticia Gonzalez said that while she would still hang out in Madrid at night, she thought she would shop here. "There is a better atmosphere than downtown Madrid," she said, "and it's certainly more convenient." Xanadú is only the latest, and largest, manifestation of a phenomenon that has been plaguing small merchants in European cities for more than a decade. In that time, the number of American-style megastores and shopping malls around Madrid has more than doubled, from 96 to 210, even as the amount of small- and medium-sized businesses has shrunk...
Takashi Murakami thinks it might be time to give the whole Louis Vuitton thing a bit of a rest. Best known for his giant, swirling, phantasmagorical canvases starring a cartoon imp named Mr. DOB, Murakami has long been Japan's hottest contemporary artist and an international art-world phenomenon. In the past two years alone, the 41-year-old painter had racked up a career's worth of milestones, including solo shows at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary...
PBHA provides the perfect combination of being in an academic environment and working to help the world, he said, adding that he hopes to help Harvard acknowledge and then address this phenomenon...
...hear that marketers are learning to portray aging baby boomers more realistically. But how often do you see an ad that features thickening middle-age Americans? Hardly ever--and that's why you will probably notice the new $16 million TV ad campaign by Curves Intl., the franchising phenomenon that has opened more than 5,400 gyms for women in the 50 states, Canada and six other countries. Commercials for Curves show real women--think "before" not "after"--slogging through their workouts. What's also different about Curves--and why its business model is even more intriguing--is that...