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...Thursday night, June 28, the action in Okinawa is on the third floor of a building in a candy-colored open-air mall called the American Village. A pink-and-blue neon sign shows where everyone is going: 3F, a bar and restaurant with a Southeast Asian theme. A couple of hundred people are already there, drawn by $3 cocktails and reggae and hip-hop tunes. It's so crowded that manager Jeff Short has abandoned his tiki-hut office to help behind the bar. The crowd is familiar, mostly female Japanese partyers and U.S. servicemen. Many of the girls...
...while back - seven rate cuts ago, to be exact - when the recovery was firmly scheduled for, well, right around now. By late summer, they all said, we?d be well on our way back to the pink (comments to that effect in this space are hereby blamed on everybody else). Well, nobody?s saying that anymore...
...Meanwhile, the story that was keeping New York's own August skeleton crew awake - the economy - was actually suppressing news overall. When the Media Conglomerate needs to meet Wall Street's targets, its news divisions get the same flurry of pink slips and parachutes as everybody else. Especially when they're losing money. "In the face of the advertising slowdown, so many media outlets are cutting costs with layoffs and lower page counts," says Wolff, "that in a real way, we can't afford news this summer." Between the temporary vacations, the permanent ones and the cost-cutting, the resources...
...secrets, owing to either diminished loyalty or the high rewards for selling out. The FBI has put the cost of industrial espionage at more than $100 billion annually. Of the first 24 cases prosecuted under the Economic Espionage Act, 18 involved corporate insiders. The latest high-profile example: pink-slipped dotcommers who are often taking proprietary information with them on their way out the door...
...wherever it would take me; sometimes I would toss a coin at a crossroads to decide which way to head. When my money ran out, I found ways of making enough to keep me going. I became a fortune-teller, a hairdresser, a peddler of fake toothpaste and pink chiffon scarves. I helped make sofas in Guizhou province and fished for yellow carp on Qinghai Lake. In the cities, I would camp in flea-ridden hostels, in the countryside I would often just sleep on the ground...