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...right places. With consumers curbing discretionary spending, it makes sense to home in on recession-proof industries. "Health care has been the bulwark of the economy," says John Challenger, CEO of the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. With proper medical attention a bedrock need, Challenger says a "wide swath of companies" have a need for physical therapists, nurses, medical records technologists and digital imaging specialists. Healthcare is also the industry showing the most growth in unionization, says Gordon Pavey, director of collective bargaining...
...change was a good idea - not least because it gave drivers a more accurate measure of how much they'd end up spending at the pump. So, you would expect that the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) ratings - the industry-wide minimum standards that the government uses to push automakers to improve gas mileage - would also use the updated tests. But guess what? They don't. (See TIME's special report on Global Warming...
...both are very aggressive attack oriented teams. It’s wide open for both teams. Columbia’s season has been incredible,” Leone said. “The game is going to be a battle from the beginning...
...original pitch to exclude tourists and terms like "porno-action" in deference to minorities who feared their traditions could face persecution under the vague category, the final version retained a broad definition of pornography that many fear could be abused by law enforcers and radical organizations. "The law is wide open to interpretation and could even apply to voice, sound, poetry, works of art or literature," says Kadek Krishna Adidharma, one of many Balinese who see the law as an attempt by the Indonesian Muslim majority to impose their will on the rest of the country. "Anything that supposedly raises...
...reason is that Obama inspired unprecedented numbers of African Americans to vote. Polls show that black voters are more likely to attend church than whites and less likely to be comfortable with equality for gay people. According to CNN, African Americans voted against marriage equality by a wide margin, 69% to 31%. High turnout of African Americans in Florida probably help explain that state's lopsided vote to ban same-sex weddings...