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...another year, the Massachusetts legislature has been unable to approve a budget on time. By finishing five months late, the huge cuts in human services programs made necessary by the economic decline will be concentrated in a shorter period of time. Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran bear responsibility for the undemocratic, closed-door negotiations that resulted in this flawed budget...
...cadre of retirees who work as free agents. A Congressional Research Service study shows that nearly 2.4 million pensioners in their mid-50s or older had jobs last year, 13% more than in 1994. Some retirees return to former employers; others establish second careers. But many, like Korpi, prefer shorter stints as fill-ins or consultants, and in recent years there's been rapid growth in the placement companies that cater to them...
...Many travelers are simply staying within their own domestic borders. An English Tourism Council survey says that 1 million people in the U.K. intend to take a holiday in Britain. On the Continent, holiday makers are planning to travel shorter distances...
...shorter distances, now that Taylor and longtime defending 400 champion Marna Schutte ’01 are out of the picture, the Crimson will turn to its veterans who have performed solidly at relays in the past...
...Gasoline prices are down near a dollar a gallon and still getting lower, and besides - everybody and his brother just spent October propping up national retail sales by buying brand-new zero-interest-rate automobiles. To grandmother?s house we go. But drivers take shorter trips than flyers and riders, spend less on hotels and spend more time at rest stops and less at the mall. They go to less exotic places - Club Med is closing 15 locations due to a 20-percent bookings decline since the 11th. And how'd you like to be in the rental-car business...