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...with only seven weeks until the election, the vector of Kerry's campaign is, if anything, entirely uphill. A new TIME survey of 857 likely voters reveals that President Bush has retained the solid 11-point lead he earned during the New York City convention earlier this month. Kerry's support has eroded across almost every demographic group but most notably among women. In a departure from recent patterns, among registered voters, women now favor Bush over Kerry by 45% to 44%, and men are breaking for the President by a lopsided...
...doom and gloom surrounding growing U.S. health-care costs continued last week, when a much watched survey of company health-insurance plans revealed a double-digit increase in family premiums for the fourth year in a row. Despite a slight pullback in the rate of growth, premiums over the past year jumped 11.2%, outpacing inflation and growth in wages by about five times. According to the survey, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust, that hike was equally borne by companies and employees, whose share of the costs rose an average 9.8% for singles...
ATTN: Smoking gun! According to a recent survey, 1 in 5 U.S. companies has had employee e-mails subpoenaed in the course of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation so far this year. The cost of gathering such electronic data: $700 million--expected to grow to $1.8 billion in 2006. This promises to be a boon for the e-mail archivers--a niche industry that has emerged to help companies cope by shifting from the costly process of sorting through unorganized data stored on backup tapes to proactive email archiving with speedy search engines. In August, Veritas Software paid $225 million...
...corporate outlook is beginning to brighten. A worldwide survey of 513 business executives by consultant Ernst & Young recently ranked Germany the third most attractive country in which to invest, behind China and the U.S. Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank reported healthy profits in the first three months of 2004, after heavy losses for the same period last year, a sign that German banks can succeed by cutting excess retail staff and pruning bad debt. Media companies like Axel Springer, publisher of Bild and Die Welt, are bouncing back from a crippling advertising drought. Companies are winning important labor concessions. Siemens...
Harvard’s latest curricular innovation caught it up with the rest of the Ivies (leaving only Princeton in our curricular dust) and 17 other national universities in the top 20 of the U.S. News survey. The meaning is clear: Big-time universities think that film studies is something you ought to be able to major in and Harvard finally agrees...