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...industries like media, airlines and autos won?t exactly brim with openings for many years to come. But things are looking up in other areas. Jobless claims this week hit their lowest level in six years. The unemployment rate has nudged below 5%-a robust reading-and the pace of corporate job cuts has been shrinking for six months...
...Fret all you want about rising energy costs and a housing slowdown. Yes, both are drags on the economy, which appears to be slowing. But oil and gas reserves are building; their prices will stablize soon. Housing activity will continue to slow-but from a pace that everyone knew was unsustainable. The national median home price rose a blistering 13% last year. The next three years, predicts Doug Duncan, chief economist at the Mortgage Banker?s Association, price gains will equal their long-run average of 5% to 6% each year...
...WONDER SO MANY OF US SUCCUMB to the panicky feeling that we can't keep pace with workplace demands. A series of new studies that examined the modern, multitasking worker show that the constant splintering and diversion of our attention wastes time and money. In a study of 1,000 officeworkers from top managers on down, Basex, an information-technology research firm in New York City, found that interruptions now consume an average of 2.1 hours a day, or 28% of the workday. The two hours of lost productivity included not only unimportant interruptions and distractions but also the recovery...
...WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF ADT? The pace of most people's lives these days induces it. We've never seen in human history the technology that we have today. I think it's basically technology driven. Why are we doing it? The short answer is because we can-because we can transmit so much information, we do. Because we can access so much information, we do. Because we can sign up for so many tasks, we do. Throw in global competition, job insecurity and all the other fears driving people today and the next thing you know...
...freshman forward Katie Rollins said. “You know exactly who you’re guarding—[you can] find your man to box out and by boxing out and getting those quick outlet passes our offense came a lot quicker and made the pace and tempo of the game to our liking...