Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader at France's Societe Generale who manipulated the company's computer system to enter large unauthorized bets under someone else's name that led to $7.7 billion in losses -- the biggest financial fraud in history -- is claiming he's being made into a scapegoat for the company's...
WASHINGTON -- Nearly one-third of the country's top executives expect to cut payrolls in the coming months, reflecting fallout from the housing bust, as well as soaring energy prices. At the same time, a survey this summer by the Business Roundtable showed that most executives expect sales...
WASHINGTON -- The nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June -- a storm of pink slips drenching this year's July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and leaving thousands more worried about the future. Weighed down by energy prices and the...
For the sixth straight year, Philadelphia public school students showed improvements on the state's standardized test. That's an encouraging sign that the troubled district is making progress in boosting student achievement. But it's hard to cheer too loudly. Too many students are still failing basic subjects, and the district still...
Wine At a time when French wine is regrouping in the wake of Australia's retail success, it must have come as yet another blow to find that it has just been elbowed out of pole retail position by the United States. This is due largely to the...
BERKELEY, Calif., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- It's a jungle out there in corporate America, with pink slips, outsourcing, and other career killers lurking behind every corner office. The arduous daily grind and perpetual uncertainty associated with corporate and other high-stress jobs is driving many aspiring professionals to...
Scientists and other research workers at GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C.'s King of Prussia and Collegeville facilities are getting their pink slips this week. The British drugmaker, which has a U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia, is cutting 2 percent of its 17,000 global research-and-development employees, or about 350, with about half of them from...
WASHINGTON -- Pink slips piled up and jobs disappeared into thin air in May, as the nation's unemployment rate zoomed to 5.5 percent in the biggest one-month jump in decades. Wall Street swooned, and the White House said President Bush was considering new proposals to revive the...
Call them "occupational hazards": people, places, and things you come in contact with at work that have the ability to harm your physical and emotional well-being. It's a fast-growing problem, especially since we're spending more time in the office than ever before. In fact, women have tacked two extra hours...
Q How can I recession-proof my job? A At the hint of layoffs, most people become timid and avoid unnecessary risks. Do the opposite. Demonstrate your value with suggestions, creativity, and, above all, a strong commitment to being the absolute best employee you can. If you do find...
SALT LAKE CITY -- Deep Blue Marine Inc. (Pink Sheets: DPBE) today announced completion of an Asset Sale Agreement with Oceanic Research & Recovery, Inc (Pink Sheets: ORRV), for the purchase of its equipment located in Key West, Florida and the assumption of 100% of Deep Blue Marine's Florida Operations....
ALPE DE PAMPEAGO, Italy AFP — Italian mountain specialist Emanuele Sella came home alone to win in the 14th stage of the Tour of Italy on the Alpe de Pampeago summit on Saturday. The first day in the Dolomites produced a new leader with Italy's Gabriele Bosisio inheriting...
Concerned about layoffs at your job or in your industry? Worried about how long you'll continue to earn a paycheck? Have you already received a pink slip? Job cuts jumped dramatically at the beginning of 2008. And it takes three months on average to find a new job, though in...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EUGENE ZEFFREN CEO, SBB LLC www.salonselectives.com Collecting authentic Pink Floyd records may help some music fans slip into sentimentality, but what would happen if the band suddenly reunited and began...
My small son has managed to survive his first involvement in industrial action quite well, with a trip to the Science Museum, a sunny-intervals romp in the park, and an impressively thorough drenching in the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain. That's what I was told anyway, as A N Other mum...
BEVERLY HILLS -- Cruising one of the world's most glamorous shopping districts in an open Rolls-Royce convertible, you can't help but feel the love. A man waves from a seat inside a coffee shop. Valet parking attendants at Spago restaurant hail the sapphire-blue whale. A panhandler in a...
SAN DIEGO -- Precious Jackson has two years of teaching under her belt and two schoolteacher-of-the-year awards to show for it. She also has a pink slip. Now Jackson is a prime target for growing school districts across the country hoping to cherry-pick from thousands of California...
SAN DIEGO -- Precious Jackson has two years of teaching under her belt and two school teacher-of-the-year awards to show for it. She also has a pink slip. Now Jackson is a prime target for growing school districts across the country hoping to cherry-pick from thousands...
With studies showing that nearly one-third ofthe country's 47 million uninsured are eligible for government sponsoredhealth programs but not signed up, the founder of the nonprofit theFoundation for Health Coverage Education FHCE, is questioning the effortsof state and federal government agencies to inform people of available "gapcoverage" programs. "Last...
By Jan BilesThe Capital-Journal Jerold Binkley is fighting nature again this year. By now, his 31/ 2-acre flower garden should be cascading with reds, yellows, whites, pinks and lavenders. Instead, because of a late spring, most of the buds on his tulips and daffodils are just now...
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