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Most folks are a bit cranky on the first day of the workweek, but their Monday blues are nothing compared with those of the stock market. Last week's 512-point plunge in the Dow was just the latest jolt to Wall Street (and international markets) after the weekend--from Oct. 28, 1929, to Black Monday in 1987, to the 554-point dive last Oct. 27. Indeed, half of the 10 biggest drops in the Dow's history, both in percentage and point terms, came on Monday, which has been the worst day of the week for stocks over...
...slumber that is my Saturday morning is payment for my nocturnal brilliance. It is proof that one can seize the day; the whole day. Unfortunately, Saturday mornings blend into Saturday afternoons where the peace and relaxation of the weekend becomes overshadowed by the approaching workweek...
...been part-time professional work, especially for women. They are quietly getting the work done while at the same time feeling good about their families. For them, part-time employment offers a unique package of family values, feminism and fat paychecks all wrapped up in one gloriously shorter workweek. NANCY CHAMBERS AND CINDY TOLLIVER Cliffside Park...
...inflicted such a devastating wound on himself and his party. And Jospin, who barely lost to Chirac in the last presidential election, has promised big changes. He and his allies said they would fight France's stubborn 12.8% unemployment rate by creating 700,000 government-backed jobs, reduce the workweek from 39 to 35 hours with no loss in pay, suspend planned privatizations, cut the sales tax and raise the minimum wage. The leftist platform, if implemented, threatens to send the deficits soaring and derail French chances of meeting the tough criteria for joining Europe's single currency, the euro...
Chirac: Because there are many variables we can work on, I am sure that we will find the necessary policies to return to a more or less normal situation. There is the length of the workday or workweek, for example, and new kinds of jobs. Half the professions that will exist 10 years from now are not even known today...