Working Life

    Across the world, while the markets here are closed, there is a melt down under way. This is a report from The Wall Street Journal’s website: Asian stocks suffered a heavy blow Monday on fears of a U.S. recession, as India’s index set a record with a 7.4% plunge and 5% or more was […]

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    Across the world, while the markets here are closed, there is a melt down under way. This is a report from The Wall Street Journal’s website: Asian stocks suffered a heavy blow Monday on fears of a U.S. recession, as India’s index set a record with a 7.4% plunge and 5% or more was […]

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    Not surprisingly, the Directors Guild of America has struck a tentative deal with Big Media. The DGA has always been perceived as more producer-friendly in the business because many of the heavy-weight directors are producers themselves and some are mini-empires. Of course, the spin that is being put out is that this is a […]

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    Not surprisingly, the Directors Guild of America has struck a tentative deal with Big Media. The DGA has always been perceived as more producer-friendly in the business because many of the heavy-weight directors are producers themselves and some are mini-empires. Of course, the spin that is being put out is that this is a […]

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    If the term "greenwash" hasn’t been given its own entry in the dictionary yet, let me propose that, when it does, it is linked directly to the word "Wal-Mart". For those not yet familiar with the term,  "greenwashing" occurs when a company pretends to be environmentally progressive yet is quite misleading about its true […]

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    If the term "greenwash" hasn’t been given its own entry in the dictionary yet, let me propose that, when it does, it is linked directly to the word "Wal-Mart". For those not yet familiar with the term,  "greenwashing" occurs when a company pretends to be environmentally progressive yet is quite misleading about its true […]

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    For a long time, I’ve been getting the sick feeling that working in construction has been getting even more dangerous. Maybe it’s just that the New York media has paid a bit more attention to the phenomena of lots more workers getting killed and injured in the wondrous Mike Bloomberg-generated construction boom in the […]

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    For a long time, I’ve been getting the sick feeling that working in construction has been getting even more dangerous. Maybe it’s just that the New York media has paid a bit more attention to the phenomena of lots more workers getting killed and injured in the wondrous Mike Bloomberg-generated construction boom in the […]

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    Today brings some pretty grim news, on top of the bad news that has been percolating over the past few months. First, wholesale prices really went sky-high in 2007: Wholesale inflation last year shot up by the largest amount in 26 years while retailers suffered their worst December shopping season in five years as […]

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    Today brings some pretty grim news, on top of the bad news that has been percolating over the past few months. First, wholesale prices really went sky-high in 2007: Wholesale inflation last year shot up by the largest amount in 26 years while retailers suffered their worst December shopping season in five years as […]

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