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...search online can provide invaluable insight into our economic state of mind. One big change in search term usage in the online retail sector is "new" versus "used." The volume of searches that contain the term "used" in search queries has increased 21.8% since the beginning of the year, indicating that people are using the Internet as a means of locating price savings over "brand new." This change in consumer behavior is also apparent in the individual domains with the greatest increases in traffic over the last year. The online classifieds website Craigslist.org is up 93.4% comparing the week ending...
...right? One would think so, but only a third of the world's premium brands sell their goods online, according to a new study by consultants Forrester Research. And fully half of those eschewing web sales have no plans to change course. On the sidelines are some of the sector's biggest names, including Cartier, Versace and Rolex...
...Consulting firms and financial-sector companies, which use aggressive recruiting tactics to woo students, won 39 percent of workforce-bound seniors, down from 47 percent last year. This year, students are gravitating in larger numbers to the arts, health services, media, and public service...
...lower-paying sector is not losing future employees because of salary size: education. Nearly 11 percent of respondents said they would go into education if finances were not an issue, the same percentage when finances were considered...
...northern England and now an American citizen. After serving in the U.S. Army, he joined the border patrol 11 years ago. "Immigration was a natural for me," he explained, because having gone through the proper channels himself, he resented people who walk into the country illegally. McPartland's sector was the first to put up a border fence, as part of Operation Gatekeeper in the 1990s. Before that fence, San Diego Sector processed close to 1,000 captured illegal aliens on busy nights, but Gatekeeper cut that number while pushing illegal traffic into the mountains west of the city...