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...price of oil and other commodities. He was not a magician, just a very competent central-bank chief with a knack for being in the right place at the right time (not only at the Fed: as a young man, he studied music alongside future saxophone great Stan Getz, learned statistics from the guy who devised the Index of Leading Economic Indicators and thought his first deep thoughts at the personal prodding of philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand...
...Maria Sharapova. "No matter how good you are one-handed, that does cause some problems." High shots to the backhand will get Federer reaching, which opens the court a bit for your return. "Hopefully, he won't be able to dominate that next shot," says tennis Hall of Famer Stan Smith. Against Federer, that's about...
...Giuliani might not want to give up his Upper East Side apartment for an Iowa farmhouse just yet. Despite his newfound enthusiasm for the state, not everything about Giuliani translates well this far west of the Hudson. In the audience at Coney's was Stan Sheldon, who has been active in Iowa presidential politics since 1936, when he got into trouble for pasting Alf Landon signs on the door of his school. This time Sheldon is supporting Romney. "I think he's been married three times," he said of Giuliani. "That's gonna hurt him here." And in a state...
...these options, Generation Y is forcing companies to think more creatively about work-life balance. The employers who do are winning in the war for young talent. The consulting firm Deloitte was alarmed by the high turnover of its youngest employees, so it asked one of its consultants, Stan Smith, to find out more about what attracts them to and keeps them at a job. His research reveals that job hopping is not an end in itself but something young workers do when they see no other choice...
...system is collapsing from within," is how Stan Eury, director of the North Carolina Growers Association, puts it. He had 10,000 workers in 2000 but only 6,400 this year. Employers complain about the spiraling costs of wages, transportation, government fees and housing. Activists worry about exploitation. Economists say guest-worker programs may look like a flexible solution to the nation's seasonal agricultural needs, but they inevitably grow rigid under a tangle of red tape...