Word: workweek
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...residents' legendary 100+-hour workweek may be on its way out. After years of loud but unproductive controversy, the American Medical Association will finally address the issue of residents? hours this week at the group's annual conference in Chicago...
...this season there were also the tempers. LVMH threw down the gauntlet by canceling Alexander McQueen?s last haute couture show for Givenchy on the eve of fashion week. The official explanation?production problems caused by the 35-hour workweek?didn?t fool anyone. McQueen had recently sold 51% of his own company to Gucci Group. More likely is the theory that LVMH wasn?t out to promote the defector. Yves Saint Laurent, who also recently sold his ready-to-wear business to Gucci, had some petty fun at his own show, seating the Gucci-appointed president in the third...
...Maurizio. The food at Ristorante Limoncello is sinfully good, and business ain't bad either. And not since the tired, the poor and the huddled masses began paddling ashore has any immigrant found more happiness in a seven-day workweek. "Maurizio bought his dream," says Cynthia DeMarco, a waitress at Caffe Graffiti, an espresso bar around the corner...
...Payroll growth, the number of jobs added to the economy, is surprisingly strong. And the average workweek went up from 34.1 hours in December to 34.3 hours in January, which is also encouraging. That means employees are working more overtime, and that means they have more money to spend...
...presses are computer-monitored precision-production machines that can produce high-quality products at a fast rate. You were also wrong to state that current powder presses are the size of a tractor trailer and demand "the ministrations of at least 200 people to keep them running through a workweek." Many conventional compacting powder presses are certainly much smaller than a tractor trailer, and often they can be handled by just one skilled production worker. PETER K. JOHNSON, MANAGING EDITOR International Journal of Powder Metallurgy Princeton...