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...next week, according to Marie H. Bowen, an assistant dean and chief human resources officer at the Law School. To supplement the results of the early retirement program and diminish the need for layoffs, the Law School will try to keep currently unfilled staff positions empty in order to trim operating expenses, Jackson said. But how effective this hiring “chill” will be at closing the gap in the school’s budget remains to be seen. “If we can use the chilled positions that would obviously be easier, but my expectation...
...runner with a trim muscular upper body, Bonilla says he is normally in good health, and never used to be concerned about flu. "I used to think it was just something that you got in the night and that was gone the next day," he says. He hoped it would be the same when he felt a sore throat and headache develop on April 22. But the next day his temperature shot up to 102 degrees and his throat closed so tightly he could hardly breathe. "I didn't want to upset my wife and daughters, so I tried...
...Brazilian waxes: "A new study suggests that the cultural preference for trim pubic hair is having dire consequences for a pesky parasite that has been freeloading in our personal perfumeries for thousands of years ... It seems that waxing down under is like deforestation as far as pubic lice are concerned...
Autoworkers have certainly made sacrifices recently as they trim wages and benefits to help make their employers more competitive and to save their jobs. That's part of the normal - and sometimes painful - give and take between employer and employee as companies seek to keep their workforce happy and their product pricing competitive. But when employee concessions become a currency equal in value - or even exceeding - the rights of bondholders, as it did in these latest negotiations, realism is replaced with hopeful illusions...
...reduce homeowners' monthly payments to as little as 31% of gross income - but that only covered first mortgages. This seriously alarmed some investors in mortgage-related securities, since many second mortgages are owned by the same companies that service the loans. The companies were essentially getting paid to trim the amount owed to outside investors while not necessarily taking a haircut themselves...