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Some market leaders, like Wal-Mart and Dell, have such enormous scale and low cost structures that they can use aggressive pricing to bleed their rivals. Other relatively smaller players, like Toyota, Steel Dynamics and Southwest Airlines, are so efficient and innovative that they can steal customers away from lumbering giants. Certain companies, like online-auction dynamo eBay, offer a service that lots of struggling firms and consumers are eager to use in hard times...
...through federal and state employer payroll taxes. State agencies take the applications and administer the payments--and their rules vary widely. Consider the experience of Stewart, 36, a Chicagoan who asked that his last name not be used. He had been working full time as an inspector in a steel-forging company for five months when he was laid off on Sept. 26. Illinois pays jobless benefits only to those who have worked full time, continuously, for 12 months before they lose their jobs. So even though Stewart and his employer paid into the unemployment-insurance fund every week that...
...York City. Ross cemented his reputation as a Broadway directing talent while still in his twenties before moving to Hollywood, where he often collaborated with writer Neil Simon and producer Ray Stark, churning out hit films such as The Sunshine Boys (1975), The Turning Point (1977) and Steel Magnolias (1989). AWARDED. To the U.N. and its Secretary-General, KOFI ANNAN, 63, the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their work for "a better organized and more peaceful world"; in Oslo. Annan, who first took up the post in 1997, has already been elected to serve a second term. ELECTED. NANCY...
...York is more than a city of concrete and steel. It?s also a kind of a dream metropolis, a place constructed of celluloid and ink, videotape and song. It?s hard to think about New York without thinking about the work of the various artists who have, over the decades, rebuilt the city in their work, from Herman Melville to Ralph Ellison to Jay McInerney, from the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley to current-day Big Apple hip-hoppers like Nas and Jay-Z. Some works help more than just artistic rebuilding, like the one taking place on October...
...songs today. One of the best songs of this first sort is "Autumn in New York," a standard that has been performed by Billie Holiday, among others. The lyrics capture the gritty romance of Manhattan life: "Glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel/ They're making me feel I'm home." Lyrical portraits of New York aren?t always pretty. In 1994, the rapper Nas released a song titled "NY State of Mind" with lyrics that go "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death... I think of crime when I'm in a New York...