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- Is My Job 'Offshorable'? You Might be Surprised
- In a much debated research paper last year, Princeton economist Alan S. Blinder concluded that up to 38 million jobs, or 29 percent, of US jobs are potentially offshorable within the next couple of decades -- that is, capable of being outsourced to workers in other countries. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
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- JLL completes theater restoration
- Jones Lang LaSalle's project and development services group in New York has completed the $16 million restoration of the historic Beacon Theatre in Manhattan. The company was selected by Madison Square Garden in early 2007 to serve as project manager overseeing the restoration of the famous venue. ...
- Articles 2009-06-10
- Former Treasury secretary Summers adapts his style
- WASHINGTON -- On a warm Monday in late April, the president dined with some of the sharpest critics of his handling of the financial crisis. Just that morning, one of his guests, Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman had complained in his New York Times column that the administration "will probably...
- Articles 2009-06-03
- Alan Greenspan to Headline Third Bipartisan Financial Regulatory Roundtable on Role of the Federal Reserve
- To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Eileen McMenamin, Director of Communications of BPC, +1-202-379-1633, emcmenamin@bipartisanpolicy.org Congressmen Paul Kanjorski and Scott Garrett host forum withdiscussion from Greenspan and Princeton University's Alan Blinder WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Chairman PaulKanjorski (D-PA) and Ranking Member Scott Garrett (R-NJ) of the U.S.House of Representatives Financial Services...
- Articles 2009-05-20
- RL: I want to be a winger: Hayne
- AAP Sports News Australia05-05-2009RL: I want to be a winger: Hayne By Adrian Warren SYDNEY, May 5 AAP - Jarryd Hayne will be happy if his giddy tour of rugby league backlinepositions has stopped at winger. The versatile Parramatta star has been chosen on...
- Articles 2009-05-05
- RL: Pearce still in Origin mix, declares Mullen
- AAP Sports News Australia05-05-2009RL: Pearce still in Origin mix, declares Mullen By David Beniuk SYDNEY, May 5 AAP - NSW Country halfback Jarrod Mullen has dismissed talk of a two-horserace between himself and City's Peter Wallace for the the Blues' No.7 jersey. Mullen's blinder...
- Articles 2009-05-05
- A seat at the table.(salespeople and customer relations)
- Let's be frank--selling has an ugly connotation, even consultative selling. New research indicates that senior executives do not see salespeople as consultative at all--at least not consultants who can drive or grow their businesses. Instead, they see a group with blinders on--myopically focused on making the...
- Articles 2009-05-01
- RL: Wallace says Lockyer was on fire
- AAP Sports News Australia04-30-2009RL: Wallace says Lockyer was on fire By Wayne Heming BRISBANE, April 30 AAP - Brisbane's NSW Origin halfback in-waiting Peter Wallace strappedhimself in the passenger seat last weekend and enjoyed the ride along with everyone elsewho watched Darren Lockyer stick it to...
- Articles 2009-04-30
- LANDMARK: Valley valour on show; all our yesterdays COUNCIL AND CHURCH SCHOOLS in the 1930s
- WE'RE at opposite ends of the Colne Valley for these two pictures. Most of the lads in cricket whites were still at school, but they played a blinder in 1953, winning the Walker Cup: they were Paddock Cricket Club Third XI, the juniors. The picture comes...
- Articles 2009-04-21
- John Baer: Will Obama rail plan get U.S. back on track?
- I'VE LONG believed that one of the biggest policy blunders in modern U.S. history was and is disproportionate investment since the 1950s in the interstate highway system. Even after the '70s' "energy crisis," we continued to ignore the obvious alternative of greatly improved rail service to reduce growing reliance on...
- Articles 2009-04-20
- PHIL THE GREAT!
- LET'S raise a glass this weekend to the Grand Old Duke of Edinburgh who becomes the longest-serving consort to a British monarch. Prince Philip, 87, has just seen off Queen Charlotte who managed to stay with George lll for 57 years and 70 days. ...
- Articles 2009-04-19
- Illegals are criminals
- It seems the mayor and police chief want Salt Lake City to be an illegal-alien magnet, despite the fact that Utah's capital is awash in welfare fraud, education fraud, armed home invasions, bank robberies, burglaries, car thefts and general street-gang violence of every kind! The police chief says he wants...
- Articles 2009-04-11
- ABRA CAR DABRA
- CITROEN just keep on pulling bunnies out of hats. Their striking DS has been rightly greeted with all the superlatives going, they've had a slick re-brand with the promise of posh new dealerships, and now they've come up with a Focus-chasing baby MPV that's an absolute...
- Articles 2009-03-22
- Rockin' restoration: the Beacon Theatre gets $16m improvement
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When event-goers stepped into the Beacon Theatre in the early 1900s, they were witness to an elaborate decor: murals, armament, medallions, intricate cornices, urns and statues. "You were actually buying a ticket to a fantasy world," said Richard Metsky, a partner at the architectural...
- Articles 2009-03-11
- The true church is born
- A great beginning, no matter how earth-shaking, isn't the same as a "grand opening." There were no big banners over Peter Whitmer's home on April 6, 1830. No clamor, no fanfare. No "look at this" news coverage. We mortals wear blinders. We can hardly measure or treasure...
- Articles 2009-03-04
- The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York has begun its long-awaited expansion and renovation
- The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York has begun its long-awaited expansion and renovation. The museum is carving out new space by reconfiguring its main building, the former mansion of Andrew Carnegie, and two adjacent townhouses that it owns on 90th Street. Designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects along with...
- Articles 2009-03-01
- The idea of travel
- Nestor rear-ended a phantom--south on 14--Now on the road--he questions the idea of travel--for a moment he remembers--a sweetness no one owned--the rules were dinner--day and night--cooked up with--a brown man's wet shirt--bent down shading the hand he praised--and the taste of the market cracked into both--begins to rise--not soldiers...
- Articles 2009-03-01
- LABOR AND CAPITAL, WORKING FOR YOU
- In the eyes of budget balancers with blinders, professors are labor costs, to be capped, furloughed, and riffed. To those with more vision, however, we are the nation's key intellectual capital, the wellspring of future knowledge workers, and drivers of our country's cultural, political, and economic revitalization. The AAUP...
- Articles 2009-03-01
- Treating itch with acupuncture
- Concerning "Itch" (SN: 11/22/08, p. 16): One of the theories behind acupuncture is the interrelation of nerves throughout the body so that stimulation in one area will have an effect on another. Since the researchers have discovered a new network of fibers, albeit itch fibers, it serves to corroborate the...
- Articles 2009-02-28
- The second coming of Keynes
- As the world's economy has entered a dramatic slowdown, an interesting Keynesian revolution has taken shape. Up until recently, there was wide consensus among macroeconomists that activist fiscal policy was inadvisable. Princeton University's Alan Blinder, for example, wrote in 2004 that "virtually every contemporary discussion of stabilization policy by economists...
- Articles 2009-02-23
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