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Even optimists agree that hiring will not rebound strongly before 2004. In the first quarter, job searchers needed 4.2 months to find work, the longest average stretch since 1986. Without job creation, it's not really a recovery. On the plus side, the work force has been cut about as far as possible, and those with jobs are doing pretty well. Wages are growing 3.4% a year, thanks partly to productivity gains, estimated to be 2% this year. Jobs always return after a lag--and this time will be no exception. --With reporting by Jay Carney and Adam Zagorin/Washington...
Even after strategizing and mapping out alternate routes, you’ve got to make adjustments to the other team’s game plan. Thinking on the fly and knowing how to stretch the limits of the rules are the necessary smarts for success in any sport...
...seventh-inning stretch would have been more appropriate in the bottom of the second inning of the first game of yesterday’s doubleheader at Soldiers Field. Once the Harvard softball team got its bats going, the Marist Red Foxes stood no chance...
...first half, O’Brien provided some breathing room with a flick of the wrist, scoring to give the Crimson a 3-0 lead. O’Brien’s goal ushered in a 12-minute scoreless stretch characterized by closely contested play and consistently stingy net minding by Mancini...
...Crimson will have the opportunity to stretch its winning streak to two as it prepares for a showdown at Ivy rival Princeton on Saturday...