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Even optimists agree that hiring will not rebound strongly before 2004. In the first quarter, job searchers needed 4.2 months to find work, the longest average stretch since 1986. Without job creation, it's not really a recovery. On the plus side, the work force has been cut about as far as possible, and those with jobs are doing pretty well. Wages are growing 3.4% a year, thanks partly to productivity gains, estimated to be 2% this year. Jobs always return after a lag--and this time will be no exception. --With reporting by Jay Carney and Adam Zagorin/Washington...
...next 12 hours were the longest of my life, interrupted by a lone moment of courage: I had to go. Outside. I couldn't stop thinking that being picked off by a sniper while taking a leak would be a truly embarrassing way to die. Shortly thereafter, two British tanks moved into the area (now that's relief) and two Cobra helicopters arrived overhead, to cheers from the camp...
Still, with Chernenko so feeble and ill, it was I who had to preside over the Politburo sessions throughout most of his tenure. Thus, it fell to me to convene the emergency session at his death. I called Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, one of the longest-serving and most influential members of the Politburo, and arranged to meet him privately half an hour before the session. I told Gromyko: "Too many problems have piled up in the country. I believe you and I have to tackle them together." Gromyko answered: "I fully agree with your appraisal of the situation...
...third period we may have sat on the lead too much. Then they got the big goal and it was a ball game—everybody knew that,” said Mazzoleni, whose team’s current seven-game unbeaten streak (6-0-1) is its longest since the 1993-94 season. “I told our guys, ‘That’s a lesson learned.’ We have to have a better effort [against Cornell], and we will...
While the Bulldogs touched the Crimson up for three goals in the first two periods, the 46:45 prior to Tallus’ goal was the longest scoreless stretch Duluth had experienced in a single game this season...