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...docklands area - a powerful motor not just for London but for British prosperity. In 2007, financial services accounted for 10.1% of the U.K.'s gross domestic product, up from 5.5% in 2001. Add in professional services linked to finance, such as accounting, law and management consultancy, and the total rises to 14%. And that's for Britain as a whole. For London, finance has been even more important: It now accounts for almost one-fifth of the city's total output, and perhaps as much as one-third if professional services are included. That's far more even than...
...threat, Comcast has also stepped up its marketing. That includes discount packages featuring, say, cable TV, Internet and telephone service for $99 a month. While Comcast has lost 195,000 basic-cable customers in the past two sluggish quarters, it has added 1.2 million telephone subscribers, bringing that total to about 5.6 million, as well as adding 770,000 lucrative broadband customers...
WEEK BY WEEK [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. TOTAL WEEKS WON REPUBLICANS TIE X TIE X TIE X X TIE X X X 7 DEMOCRATS...
...because the city's corps of middle managers was wiped out in previous downturns, companies are now looking for younger workers. Westinghouse hired 800 people last year, bringing its total new hires to 3,000 in the past three years. Most are engineers, half of them replacing engineers who first joined the company in nuclear energy's early boom years, in the '60s and '70s. The rest are enjoying nuclear's newfound popularity. The jobs range from about $55,000 for college grads to more than $100,000 for experienced engineers. Even tech workers with associate degrees can crack...
...adaptation of a Zen short story lent itself to the short form. “The thing about Zen short stories is that they are so concise in and of themselves that they demand the filmmaker to be concise,†Yee says. With a total audience of about 500, the attendance at the festival met organizers’ expectations, and Lumen Eclipse hopes that the festival will be the first of many. “I think the best part was just standing there watching the films and seeing the whole space filled with people who were engaged...