Word: wakefulness
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...workers, from its payrolls. Barclays is expected to eliminate 3,000 jobs from the former investment-banking division of Lehman Brothers, which it acquired in September. And Merrill Lynch's John Thain recently said that he expects thousands of job cuts in the wake of his firm's acquisition. All told, Hintz expects Wall Street employment to fall 25%, which could mean a loss of 43,250 jobs in New York City alone and more than 200,000 jobs nationwide...
...fourth quarter to put the Crimson up 24-20 punctuated what appears to be Harvard’s return to form—am improvement that should be aided by facing Dartmouth’s Ivy-worst rush defense next week. FLAG DAY The Crimson got a serious wake-up call on the opening drive when senior Andrew Berry got his clock cleaned by three Tigers coverage players when trying to receive the punt from Princeton’s Ryan Coyle. It appeared to be a clear-cut penalty for kick catch interference, but no flag flew...
...perspective, think back on 1997, when a financial crisis began in Thailand and rapidly swept through first Asia and then emerging markets around the world. It brought currency collapses, massive debt defaults and sharp recessions in its wake...
...studies—by School of Public Health professors Howard K. Koh and Gregory N. Connolly, and researcher Hillel R. Alpert—examine the state of the American tobacco industry in the wake of the 1998 settlement that included a $200-billion payment by tobacco companies and a ban on marketing cigarettes to teens...
...Karl Marx lived to see this miniature revival, he wouldn’t have been that surprised. Marx knew the power of cataclysmic financial events to shake the world’s faith in neo-liberal doctrine. In the wake of the 1857 stock market panic, Marx wrote to his friend and co-author Friedrich Engels, “The American Crash is a delight to behold and it’s far from over.” Yet that downturn—along with all of the other shocks and recessions that have periodically plagued American economic history?...