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...returned fairly easily. Diaries rely on people to remember everything they have recently listened to, but the wide sample size of the paper survey method fills in the inevitable gaps in memory.Understandably for a recently developed device, PPM information is much costlier, and as a result, scarcer. PPMs may be able to provide more comprehensive and accurate data as far as an individual’s exposure to radio signals go, but it’s not very helpful when barely a thousand are circulating among big radio markets like New York. Radio broadcasters actually end up paying more...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson and Evan L. Hanlon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Counting People, On the Air | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...consider a career in dealing alongside their offers from McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs. They are made up mostly of desperately poor people—people for whom the inflated demand of pot represents a rare economic opportunity in a world where jobs are scarce and education scarcer...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: The Stoner’s Dilemma | 10/1/2007 | See Source »

...jobs are scarce and growing scarcer in Arab countries. The region already faces 15% unemployment, and 90 million new jobs will be needed by 2020 to accommodate the swell of young workers, according to the World Bank. When Bruder, 59, met with employers who operate in the region, however, they complained of posts left unfilled for lack of skilled professionals. "They had all these university graduates who had no clue how to hold meetings or run spreadsheets or even how to dress at an office," he says. So he formulated a deceptively simple-sounding plan: his Education for Employment Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gainful Employment | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Young predicts deal jumping will become even more common as takeover candidates become scarcer. "Eventually there's going to be fewer and fewer targets," he said. And when that happens, it could get nasty. "Private-equity firms still have a lot of powder to burn, and they're going to have to start being more competitive, and we'll potentially see more deal jumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: A Private-Equity Peak? | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...animal epidemiologists had based all their Ebola assumptions on mountain gorillas--the kind studied by Dian Fossey--and not on Western gorillas, which were actually dying. The mountain variety subsists mostly on leaves, which are available all over the forest. Western gorillas, by contrast, live mostly on fruit, a scarcer resource that draws different groups of gorillas and chimpanzees to the same trees at different times of day. "They defecate and urinate in and around the trees," says Walsh, leaving infected body fluids to sicken the next group. Gorillas also examine the bodies of dead apes they come upon, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ebola is Killing Gorillas | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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