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Power praised the ACID team for their efforts to involve the neighborhood, which ranged from conducting a survey to gauge the neighborhood’s priorities to holding several informal gatherings last month for residents to discuss a draft of the agreement...
...alarming trend has been confirmed by Partnership for Children, a local child-advocacy group that has just completed a survey of child-care centers, elementary schools and pediatricians throughout Tarrant County, which includes Forth Worth and suburban Arlington. The final report is due out in January, but a preliminary version obtained by TIME shows that 93% of the 39 schools that responded to the survey said kindergartners today have "more emotional and behavioral problems" than were seen five years ago. More than half the day-care centers said "incidents of rage and anger" had increased over the past three years...
There is little doubt that very young children are watching loads of TV before they even reach kindergarten. In October the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation released the results of a survey of 1,065 parents with children ages 6 months to 6 years. The stunning finding is that 43% of the kids age 2 and younger watched TV on a typical day and that 26% had a TV in their room. The median amount of time spent watching: two hours...
Stock-option grants and performance-based bonuses are spreading globally, even as they come under scrutiny in the U.S., which sparked the trend. Long-term incentives--mostly stock options--are for the first time the norm for senior positions around the world, according to Towers Perrin's latest compensation survey. Credit (or blame) can be given to U.S. multinationals. "It got noticed, and local companies had to start following suit," says Leon Potgieter, managing principal of Towers Perrin's Global Consulting Group. Performance-based pay is spreading too, reaching further down in the corporate ranks to the likes of accountants...
What might sound like a logistical nightmare and cause for a postvacation vacation is becoming a popular leisure strategy. More Americans are traveling not only with their extended families but also with groups of friends--on average, seven people total, according to a recent survey by the marketing firm Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell (YPB&R). Fans of pack travel enjoy getting group discounts, but mostly they see it as the ultimate in multitasking: Why not catch up with friends while taking in a museum? And if you opt to skip the art, chances are there's a willing shopping companion...