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Once upon a time, if you hated your job, you either quit or bit your lip. These days, a group of researchers is trumpeting a third option: shape your job so it's more fruitful than futile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Your Job? Here's How to Reshape It | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...effort being spent on whipping companies into shape, though, there is much less energy going toward addressing the changing nature of foreclosure. HAMP was crafted to deal with the effects of the housing bubble: excessively easy credit let people buy homes they couldn't really afford and often with loans that carried spiking interest rates and payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Loan-Modification Program Isn't Working | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...part of the recall, the shape of the accelerator pedal on millions of Toyotas will be reconfigured to address the risk of floor-mat entrapment. In addition, Toyota will install a brake-override system that cuts engine power in case of simultaneous application of both the accelerator and brake pedals. The cost of the recall could top $4 billion, according to speculation in Tokyo, which Toyota officials in the U.S. have declined to verify. (See TIME's survey of the 50 worst cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toyota's Big Recall Unlikely to Quiet Critics | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...moment we are in good shape,” Fitzsimmons said of the office’s cost-effective international trips...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Admissions Recruits Abroad on Tight Budget | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...going to take a tremendous effort and performance,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “It’s going to take an effort and performance out of them that would be less than stellar. We understand the dynamics that have to shape up and go our way, but those things have happened...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big East Contest Awaits | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

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