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...losing their jobs, they're able to find new jobs relatively easily. Challenger, Gray and Christmas released a survey recently that said that in the first quarter of this year, job downtime - the amount of time it takes for a laid-off person to find another job - was the shortest in 15 years. And for workers 50 and over - the ones most likely to be looking for jobs in management, not the prototypical hamburger-flipper - the downtime was even shorter. That's incredible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'This Shows How Dynamic the U.S. Economy Still Is' | 6/1/2001 | See Source »

...black sneakers squishing along the concrete path between lilies and the white stucco walls of the presidential mansion. As he points out a Ju Ming sculpture he admires and some work he's had done to the house, his gestures are compact, as if his arms automatically seek the shortest distance between repose and extension. His bearing is quiet, but always lurking is the authority, both of his formidable intellect and his high office. To his credit, he wears his achievements as easily as his blue oxford shirt. In these moments, as he shows off his newly remodeled home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Chen the One? | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...with attitudes. Sometimes she's clipped and bossy. Sometimes she's innocent and virginal. Sometimes she's a kitten with a whip. Sex is a weapon for her; weapons are weapons for her. She'll screw you or kill you, depending on what seems to offer her the shortest route to the DVD player of her dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sex, Lies And DVD Player | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...president, Rosovsky was an economist by training, and so tends to think of interests in influence in those terms. He does defend the infamous aphorism, in a slightly different form: Rosovsky claims universities cannot and must not be democracies. As the greatest number of people are students spending the shortest amount of time here, their desires must be seen in that light, and permanence—tenure, a long degree program, a long record as an employee—must trump the energetic whim of the student body...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: History and Change at Harvard | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...What's the shortest woman you've ever been with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaquille O'Neal | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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