| FEATURE-Tripoli's new normal - bickering politicians Reuters By William Maclean TRIPOLI, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Less than a month after Muammar Gaddafi's fall, Tripoli is bustling. Shoppers throng markets. Banks are open. Electricity and water are back, most of the time. Out in the desert, some oil flows. ... | ||
| America's 'New Normal' is Anything But Honolulu Civil Beat ... a peep from the US media and virtually no notice of the American public. Since 9/11, everything cryptic and corrupt, deceptive and invasive, immoral and illegal is simply called "the new normal" as if we are all supposed to just accept it as such. | ||
| WCU president: Reduced funding is the new normal Daily Local News Weisenstein said the new normal in university finance shows a 20-year trend of decreased government funding. "As we feel well-earned pride in our university, we also know this is a challenging time for higher education across the country," Weisenstein ... | ||
| The Key to Economic Growth (Hint: It's Not a Policy Gimmick) Minyanville.com As indicated in my previous article "Why the US Can't Grow Its Way Out of Its Budget Jam," if GDP growth is as slow as PIMCO's "new normal" would indicate, then even if the Congress could muster the "political courage" to fix the budget and entitlement ... | ||
| Pulse of Commerce Index Down 1.4% in August Truckinginfo "What we're experiencing is the 'new normal,' where the US economy will continue to stumble forward until a new growth engine is identified. Essentially, the economy is in need of an innovation burst." On a year-over-year basis, the PCI was up 0.4% in ... | ||
| Firefighter reflects on NYC visit Sioux City Journal A new normal rose from the ashes; an altered sense of security at home, two wars abroad. Did it give Cougill second thoughts about his career? It did. "If anything, it solidified what I wanted to do," said Cougill, now a captain on Truck 1 in a station ... | ||
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| Documentary Provides Intimate Look at Arab-American Experience Patch.com 11, 2011, many writers and filmmakers tried to address how the country was coming to terms with the “new normal.” Even Americans who didn't directly lose friends or family felt the world shift. In few places was the change as dramatic as in Dearborn, ... | ||
| The 10 Worst Weather Disasters This Year and Why They Are Happening AlterNet These days extreme weather is beginning to seem like the new normal in a year marked by disastrous events -- deadly tornadoes, raging floods, crippling drought and wildfire, massive hurricanes, and don't forget the great white-out of "snowpocalpyse. ... | ||
| The anti-stimulus argument The MIT Tech The truth is, this is the new normal. Our pre-crash economy was an illusion. We vastly overestimated our own productivity, and made that self-deception feel real by living far beyond our means. Our current estimate of our productive capabilities, ... | ||
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| ManpowerGroup's Global Hiring Confidence Index Shows Expectations in India and ... MarketWatch (press release) "Just like financial markets, labor markets continue to adjust to the 'new normal' and there will continue to be turbulence. Navigating this seesawing demand is difficult for employers, but most employers continue to be thoughtful and cautious in their ... | ||
| Inflation-Adjusted Income For Median Male Worker Hits New Low Huffington Post The good news, median male worker, is that you've got plenty of company here in the "new normal" that looks like 1968. The bad news is that you're just a hop, skip, and a jump away from living the life of last night's debate star: Wolf Blitzer's ... | ||
| Program offers hope for cancer survivors Vineland Daily Journal "This program provides the survivor and their family the opportunity to establish a 'new normal.' The gift of health and hope all in one program." On average, 14 people are diagnosed with cancer each week in Cumberland County, said George Steinbronn ... | ||
| Spirit Junkie: Gabrielle Bernstein on Money and Miracles AlterNet (blog) This is a book for forward-thinking women seeking a fresh way to navigate the “new normal” of this unique (and economically painful) environment we find ourselves in. But if you are feeling exhausted from a life that seems like a non-stop treadmill of ... | ||
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| Why The Market Will Bottom Higher Than 2009 - An Analysis of FCF Economic Populist The somewhat “de-risked” US corporate sector almost never gets mentioned in the financial media as a positive, with only the darker “new normal” type slow growth side highlighted. If companies are running efficiently, productivity stretched, ... | ||
| Federal grants will require more transparency and accountability, OMB official ... Watchdog The constricting federal budget is “the new normal,” he said, and reduced spending includes greater public scrutiny of how funds are spent “to lower levels of fraud, lower levels of waste.” The website for the Recovery Act's stimulus spending was ... | ||
| Obama Is Repeating JFK's Mistakes Forbes This is President Obama's latest plan to nudge unemployment below its high new normal – and also precisely that of John F. Kennedy as he confronted recession on taking office in early 1961. The difference is that JFK came to realize that this policy ... | ||
| Banks already dealing with the Greek inevitability Sydney Morning Herald Even if it wanted to, knocking 50 or 100 points off the cash rate would certainly cause an immediate forex kerfuffle, but the “new normal” would reassert itself soon enough. And if the RBA was able to significantly cut rates, it would be because we had ... | ||
| Banking on South Africa's revised interest rate outlook FT Tilt by Sid Verma, FT Tilt • More from this author South Africa's new normal -- weak growth prospects and low interest rates for longer -- will have a negative impact on banks' earnings in the short-term but should help boost the sector's long-term outlook, ... | ||
| Mayor plans to close Ida Benderson Senior Center YNN The mayor says welcome to the new normal for city government. "We have consolidated. We have eliminated services. We have reduced our workforce by 10 percent. We are going to have to start trimming back," Mayor Miner said. ... | ||
| Treasurys Are A Largely Under-Appreciated Tail Risk Hedge Seeking Alpha We have all the respect in the world for the PIMCO machine, its superlative marketing capabilities and its immortal bond kings, but what if it's not the new normal? What if it's the same old normal? After all, Bill Gross' infamous – but perhaps ... | ||
| Answering the complainers Nassau Guardian It is likely that the free-wheeling easy money in Western economies has come to an end and that we are facing a new era of what some economists call “the new normal”. If we are to survive in the new normal we must become more productive and more ... | ||
| Aetna sees bigger profit as health claims stay low Reuters "Everybody is trying to figure whether this level of low utilization is the new normal," Zubretsky said. Aetna is closely watching trends to determine whether claim costs could spike back up, he said. Health insurers have been posting ... | ||
| 5 Things The Tech World's Watching This Week DailyFinance Simultaneous network launches for popular handsets is about to become the New Normal. Finally, this week marks the annual DEMO Fall conference, in which start-ups pitch to an audience of heavy hitters, including big-name entrepreneurs and venture ... | ||
| WENDY ELLIOTT: NS Provincial parks in danger? Kings County Register/Advertiser According to a weather story in the Guardian recently, climate rollercoasters are the 'new normal.' Certainly, with soils in southern England drier than the earth in Egypt, something is happening. Apparently in China the crazy hot conditions prompted a ... | ||
| New normal, career reinvention, jobs, By Maria Botta Where are the opportunities in the “New Normal” economy. written by .... Business in the US and much of the world isn't as “usual”, we will probably never go back to the pre-recession time and the reality is, we must adapt to the “new normal”. ... Webgrrls Wisdom | Where are the... | ||
| The High Low » 6 New York Stores Where Art, Fashion, and ... By Susannah Edelbaum 6 New York Stores Where Art, Fashion, and Commerce Intersect. Posted on September 13, 2011, 4:48 pm, by Susannah Edelbaum, under Retail Trends. Blame it on the rise of the model/actress — crossovers are the new normal. In New York ... The High Low | ||
| When bad things happen… | UVM Extension New Farmer Project By Mary Peabody Be an optimist. Even if it is not your nature force yourself to find opportunities, look on the bright side, and remember there is always someone in a worse situation. Remember you are not recreating your old life; you are building a “new normal”. ... UVM Extension New Farmer Project | ||
| A message from Al Gore about 24 Hours of Reality : ACT By Deborah Together, we're going to take a stand against the “new normal.” We're going to remove any doubt stirred up by deniers.?? Together, we're going to catalyze urgency around an issue that impacts every one of us. Find a presentation in your ... ACT | ||
| Pulse of Commerce Index down 1.4% in August By CCJ Staff What we're experiencing is the 'new normal,' where the U.S. economy will continue to stumble forward until a new growth engine is identified. Essentially, the economy is in need of an innovation burst.” On a year-over-year basis, the PCI was ... Commercial Carrier Journal | ||
| Step Off the Hamster Wheel and Embrace Creativity | Leader's ... By derekmurphy We are coming out of the economic downturn and are now faced with a new “normal”. Industry transformation creates uncertainty, and leaders must use creative thinking to discover innovative ways of managing an organization's structure, ... Leader's Beacon | The Leadership Experts | ||
| The American Dream and Middle Class Jobs | PR on the run By Rob Jewell Here's an interesting and timely story in the NYT about what could become the “new normal” (as the policy wonks love to say) about manufacturing and other jobs, “In Detroit, Two Wage Levels Are the New Way of Work“: DETROIT — They are ... PR on the run |
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