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		<title><![CDATA[WaPo Closes N.Y, L.A., Chicago, Bureaus; Online Layoffs Coming, Too]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is shutting down its bureaus in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, with plans to lay off an undisclosed number of online staff as well. The goal is to save money by focusing more on politics and local Washington news, per a memo obtained...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Best 401(k) Moves When You Leave a Job]]></title>
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		<title><![CDATA[AP Achieves 10 Percent Payroll Reduction With 90 Layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Associated Press&#8217; layoffs this week have satisfied the goal of reducing payroll costs by 10 percent, the wire service said in a statement. The final tally of the layoffs was 90 news department staffers, the AP said. About 71 jobs were represented by the Newspaper Guild, which has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:55:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EA's Riccitello: Layoffs Are 'Essential' For The Company's Digital Transformation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The main reason for EA&#8217;s second round of mass layoffs within a single calendar year? The company is extremely bullish on digital. &#8220;As we said in previous quarters, we&#8217;re narrowing our focus to invest in core hits and digital,&#8221; said CEO John Riccitello, during the company&#8217;s Q3 (its fiscal...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Aiming for 30,900 Layoffs Through 2012]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pfizer has laid off 26,300 employees since 2005, and hopes eventually to lay off a total of 30,900 through 2012, according to its 10-Q filing with the SEC. The company had several rounds of layoffs before its acquisition of Wyeth in an attempt to get $6 billion in annual savings...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Closes Bridgewater Site; Clock Ticks on CT Tax Deal; Layoffs All Over]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Pfizer decides how to cut 19,500 jobs in its merger with Wyeth, which closed today, the clock is ticking at its New London campus on a tax deal that gives the company an 80 percent reduction in its municipal bill. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo's Bartz: 'We're Done With Layoffs']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The economy may be &#8220;bumping along the bottom,&#8221; as Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz said during the company&#8217;s press conference. But afterward, Bartz told paidContent that there are no further layoffs on the horizon: &#8220;We have no more layoffs; we&#8217;re done. That&#8217;s it.&#8221; Yahoo has already cut its...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Interpublic's PowerPoint From Hell: 3,000 Layoffs May Not Be Enough]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interpublic presented to investors an exaggerated slide showing its organic revenues falling off a cliff. The slide is presented in percentage changes, not actual revenues, so the trend is comically exaggerated. Why would CFO Frank Merganthaler do this? He wants investors to price in all the bad news as soon...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:20:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Numbers Behind Salon's Layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Salon.comâ€™s SEC filing last Friday was simply too depressing a way to end my week, so I decided to pass on covering it â€" then. But with the news breaking today that the company has had to lay off six (or ~20 percent) of its talented edit staff, we...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:48:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Talks Up Future Search Features; 400 New Layoffs On The Way?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ One question for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) in the wake of the announcement of its search deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is how much its search engine will continue to be able to maintain an independent identity. Yahoo is licensing its search technology to Microsoft, but it will still control...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:00:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shore Up Your Beleaguered Finances]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uncle Sam thinks you're too rich to help, so you'll have to help yourself.  Keep  Your Income Flowing    In past recessions, the little guy  or gal took the brunt of the job losses. Now, however, a high annual income &#8212;  one over $100,000...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MDC Partners Q1: Revenue Down 10%; Profit Comes Following Mass Layoffs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/10001817/mdc-partners-q1-revenue-down-10-profit-comes-following-mass-layoffs/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[MDC Partners saw revenue tumble 10 percent to $127 million in Q1 2009; net income rose to $400,000, from a loss of $1.3 million last year. The slide comes on the heels of hundreds of layoffs at Accent Marketing, MDC's customer call center operation, following a massive cut by a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:39:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Layoff Insurance is Just Another Sales Gimmick]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/family-finance/layoff-insurance-is-just-another-sales-gimmick/340/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If we've learned anything from this financial crisis, it's that sometimes an offer -- think the no down payment mortgage -- that sounds great is just another sales gimmick to get us to buy stuff we probably can't afford in the first place. by Stacey Bradford]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:00:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Travel Roundup: Cuban Travel Ban Debate, Las Vegas Sands Layoffs, Embraer Expects Brazil's Money and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cuban travel ban could be lifted -- Senators and special interest groups are scheduled to rally for a bill to end travel restriction to Cuba Tuesday andÂ President Barack Obama is expected to further loosen travel restrictions by the Summit of the Americas conference April 17-19 in Trinidad and Tobago. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Layoff Lessons From My Father]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/family-finance/layoff-lessons-from-my-father/100/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me share with you what my father taught me about careers and finances: Unless you're a tenured teacher or have a similarly secure job, you can lose your paycheck at any time.  So I had better be prepared. by Stacey Bradford]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:36:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WPP's Layoffs Plan Explained -- Wall Street Doesn't Believe Sorrell's Rosy View of the Future]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street no longer believes WPP's Martin Sorrell. That seems to be the message in the reaction of Morgan Stanley and Edward Hill-Wood to WPP's 2009 forecast.    WPP said it saw a 2 percent drop in revenues for 2009, when the company released its Q4 2008 results....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:20:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merck-Schering Roundup: Layoffs More Likely at Schering; Insiders Traded Fortuitously; How Merck Timed the Deal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10001318/merck-schering-roundup-layoffs-more-likely-at-schering-insiders-traded-fortuitously-how-merck-timed-the-deal/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LAYOFFS? In the Merck/Schering-Plough merger, layoffs will likely fall most heavily on the Schering employees. This is not just because Merck is the acquiring company and will place its people in the driving seats. (That, of course, will be part of it.)    Rather, it's because Schering has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:34:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Creating White-Collar Work]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a million white-collar jobs are expected to be created by the new stimulus plan, which could provide a significant boost to the nation's weakening economy. Ben Tracy reports from Los Angeles.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:00:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WPP Q4: Lower Profits Increase Likelihood of More Layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is often said that WPP chief Martin Sorrell takes accounts at lowball rates and figures out how to make a profit later.    That notion is writ large in WPP's 2008 full year earnings report, out today. Revenues were up 9.7 percent to $13.5 billion but profit...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:47:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Interpublic Q4: Revenue Declines; Good News in the Details; Layoffs Still a Threat]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/10001070/interpublic-q4-revenue-declines-good-news-in-the-details-layoffs-still-a-threat/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Revenue at Interpublic Group declined 4.1 percent to $1.9 billion in Q4 2008, but that topline masked what was actually a sterling performance for IPG.    BNET previously chided the company for a number of issues: its negative cashflow performance, which for three straight quarters had been in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:47:52 -0800</pubDate>
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