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Despite such heartwarming stories, fantasy fishing does have detractors: the dozens of pros who would like to earn more than the few thousand bucks they've been reeling in. "Guys are struggling," says Ken Wick, an FLW pro. "If anything, can't the [fantasy] prizes be maybe $50,000 for the tournaments, and $250,000 for the big one? That's still a good amount of money for playing around on your computer...
Retail may also be the best example of a large US industry that could get government support to save jobs, but probably won't. While employment is being built up for infrastructure programs in alternative energy and broadband, retail firms could lay-off several hundred thousand people...
...thousand further examples could be plucked from the annals of history. Nature writing has a long and rich history, extending from the Greek poets; to Wordsworth, Thoreau, and Muir in the 19th century; to the 1970s renaissance of nature-based works like Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” Embedded in all this lyricism is an environmental ethics—descriptions of breathtaking beauty move us to realize why nature should not be destroyed and encourage us to industrialize responsibly...
...union says it gave plenty of concessions during the last set of contract negotiations. For cosmetic purposes, it may bend more but is probably willing to gamble that the government will not allow the two car companies to go into bankruptcy and force the loss of hundreds of thousand of jobs in an economy that is already battling rapidly rising unemployment...
...Thirty companies laid off almost 200,00 people in January. Tens of thousand of smaller firms which the credit crisis is likely to hurt badly probably let workers go at a much more rapid pace. No one would be terribly surprised if total unemployment rose by nearly one million people in the first month of the year...