Word: slacked
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...resident of Oakland, Calif., Philipson, 52, describes how Americans' love affair with work might be great for corporate productivity but can have terrible personal consequences. Her book is well timed, with millions of Americans newly laid off and millions more working harder than ever to pick up the slack. "In giving it all to our jobs, we are running a great risk," she writes. "As Americans are working longer hours and investing emotionally in our jobs, we are simultaneously depleting our lives beyond work... When work fails--through a betrayal, rupture or layoff--employees who have given it all often...
Winter officially arrived on Dec. 1 against Stony Brook, when he scored 11 points and picked up 10 rebounds for his first career double-double. Eight of those boards came in the offensive end, as Winter picked up the slack for ailing junior center Brian Sigafoos...
...thing, the yen has been strengthening against the dollar, making Japanese exports less of a bargain overseas. That caused the Bank of Japan to go on a dollar-buying binge last week to keep the yen in check. Plus, there's no consumer boom inside Japan to take up slack if the U.S. recovery stalls. Businesses, operating with excess capacity, still aren't investing in new machinery, factories or technology, nor are they hiring. Unemployment remains high, while wages are falling; workers recently pocketed the smallest annual bonuses in a generation...
This unhappy arrangement appears to reflect what economists refer to as “managerial slack.” In making decisions about outsourcing, administrators have not always put the interests of the University community above the pursuit of their own personal objectives. Thanks to the hard work of the janitors union and the Living Wage Campaign, University President Lawrence H. Summers is now attempting to achieve a cultural change...
Though the average retirement age is creeping up--and a growing share of Americans, by choice or necessity, are planning to work at least part time well past 65--demographers say there still will not be enough qualified members of the next generation to pick up the slack. So with 76 million baby boomers heading toward retirement over the next three decades and only 46 million Gen Xers waiting in the wings, corporate America is facing a potentially mammoth talent crunch. Certainly, labor-saving technology and immigration may help fill the breach. Still, by 2010 there may be a shortage...