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...problem even though many economists view the current economic crisis on the whole as a rough patch with a foreseeable end. Some optimistic forecasts show GDP growth slipping until sometime in the latter part of 2009, when it is expected to inch upward again. But even an uptick in broad economic indicators after next year is unlikely to ease unemployment. The high unemployment rates taking shape now are likely to hover near record levels for some time, because economic recoveries in recent decades have tended to go forward without generating many jobs...
...breakthrough in material sciences, the creation of SiOnyx reflects an uptick in technology transfer in the physical sciences, according to Alan D. Gordon, the director of business development for the Office of Technology Development. Traditionally, most technology transfer, particularly at Harvard, has been among life science researchers...
...what marks a distinct uptick in their budgetary authority, the divisional deans, according to the letter, will be given an “offer budget” to pay for faculty recruitment for the departments under their purviews...
...Despite the undergrad uptick, Moretto says about 60% of the Michigan patrons are graduate students, who often have families of their own to support. Jana Simmons, 26, a Ph.D candidate in biochemistry, started going to the food bank last summer shortly after her daughter was born. Simmons' husband is a certified teacher, but in the state's struggling economy, she says, he hasn't been able to find a classroom job in over four years, working as a roofer instead. Simmons' stipend, meanwhile, "isn't enough to live on," she says. Paying for day-care and diapers...
...companies might even be at risk of not being able to pay workers. So far, there's little, if any, evidence of that. Automatic Data Processing, which handles paychecks for 400,000 small businesses, dips into its clients' bank accounts to pay their employees. There has been a slight uptick in the number of times there haven't been ready funds, but at this point, that pattern isn't any different from what ADP has observed in previous economic slowdowns...