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...makes this economy even more unusual is that productivity has risen through the slump and continues to be strong in the recovery. In every other postwar recession and in the early part of most recoveries, productivity slumped because production dropped faster than employment. This time, companies were quick to shed workers and have been slow to hire them back. Those who have jobs are working harder and more efficiently, with better technology. Productivity, or output per worker, rose 8.3% in the first quarter and 5.5% the quarter before that...
Terry grew up in Dunlap, Calif. After she dropped out of high school at the end of her junior year, she earned money by cooking and cleaning at a dude ranch and toiling in a fruit-packing shed, where she boxed oranges, peaches and nectarines. She soon realized that John, a carpenter who worked hard from one construction job to the next, had problems and did not have the kind of ambition she was discovering in herself. "He's not kind of a go-getter," says her friend Hernandez. While caring for two children, Terry enrolled in an adult-education...
...September that icon of feminine protection, Procter & Gamble's 65-year-old Tampax tampon, will shed its plain white wrapper and reinvent itself as the Tampax Pearl, with an easier-to-use, pearlized applicator decked out in a pastel wrapper that won't turn to confetti at the bottom of a purse. The intended customer, says Tampax spokeswoman Elaine Plummer, is the "joy consumer--the postpone-no-pleasure, spare-no-expense, accomplished, feminine woman who wants her tampon to be more fashion accessory than hygiene product." In other words, the woman who wants designer everything--inside...
...doesn't mean there won't be arguments. The leaders of the House and Senate will be busy quelling the turf fights that have already begun. The biggest losers will be the Treasury Department, which would give up the Secret Service and Customs, and the Transportation Department, which would shed the Coast Guard...
Khoo Thwe captures the rhythms and rituals of village life with a humor and affection one might not expect from a narrator who confesses, "I was desperate to shed my tribal traditions." That process begins at Mandalay University, where he studies his first love, English literature, and meets his second, a feisty student called Moe. Instinctively, they keep their affair secret. She is a Burman, the nation's dominant ethnic group, some of whose members believe the government- propagated myth that "backward" tribes like the Padaung are cannibals. His family would have been equally shocked at his interest...