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Financial crisis has world teetering on the brink – welcome to the new normal
The Guardian
Welcome to the new normal. Billions of pounds were wiped off the value of shares in London on Tuesday 4 October. Dexia, a bank jointly owned by the French and the Belgians, teetered on the brink of collapse. ...
The New Normal: Cruze Still Tops Corolla and Civic in Compact Car Sales
MotorTrend Magazine
For what seemed like an eternity, the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic have always occupied the two sale spots in the compact car segment, their dominance seemingly set in stone. The rankings below them didn't matter. The runner-up cars were often ...
Instructors adjust to 'new normal'
Arizona Daily Sun
Katrina Taylor, whose political science specialty is in environmental movements, is aware of the declining trend in tenured faculty-- it used to be a lot easier for a young scholar to head straight into an assistant professorship, the first rung on the ...
The Stock Market's 'New Normal'
Seeking Alpha
Anytime someone points to something as a “new normal,” buyer beware, especially as it relates to economics and investments. But there are exceptions with respect to methods, and sometimes one can find some disruptive technique or behavioral change as a ...
Scotty McCreery's Parents Say They're Ready for a 'New Normal'
Taste of Country
The new normal includes concerts, meet and greets, demoing songs, late night TV performances and more! There was also footage of the singer singing and playing his guitar, sounding exactly the same and looking exactly the same — just a few years ...
Panelists Ponder the New Normal for Nonprofits
Youth Today
The Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy somberly marked its 15th anniversary today, as a panel of experts discussed what might rescue the nonprofit world from its current downward spiral. “I'm not sure there is a light at the end of ...
TEDxKrakow: The New Normal
Krakow Post
Over the last eight months, the TEDxKrakow team  have been working away on plans for this year's event, the theme of which is: The New Normal. The 20 or so invited speakers have been asked to ponder how life is going to change, once the dust settles ...
Editorial: Manna's 'new normal'?
Pensacola News Journal
We might be at the point at which Manna is a long-term "emergency" situation that is the new normal. What Manna needs is a "new normal" in contributions from the community. If people and groups don't step up their efforts on a continuing basis — not ...
The Wages of Austerity
Wyatt Investment Research
"If global policy makers could focus on structural as opposed to cyclical financial solutions, new normal growth as opposed to recession might be possible." That's a quote from the latest Investment Outlook from PIMCO's Bill Gross. ...
Congress's new brinkmanship: Better or worse than politics as usual?
Christian Science Monitor
Crisis mode is becoming the new normal for Congress, which in the past nine months has stonewalled its way into three government shutdown scares and an unprecedented near-default on the national debt. Almost gone on Capitol Hill is the old way of ...
Wal-Mart: The new Neiman Marcus?
Fortune
Some might call this the so-called "new normal," but Brewer says the downturn has not only changed the way consumers shop but it has also changed the way Wal-Mart has been doing business. Admittedly, Brewer said, the retailer was slow to respond. ...
Look Outside of Your Comfort Zone When Exploring Business Ownership, Says ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The term, "forced entrepreneurship" is becoming a new trend as jobseekers consider the new normal in this "New Career Economy," according to Chief Operating Officer and President of The Entrepreneur's Source (TES) Brian Miller. ...
Long-Deflated Consumer Confidence Points to a Frugal America
ABC News (blog)
An ABC News poll just over two years ago focused on the “new normal” in consumer behavior and anticipated a phenomenon many retailers now are seeing. As we reported: “Battered by the worst recession in decades, vast numbers of Americans see lean times ...
Oil Refining Spreads Never Returned to Normal
Minyanville.com
In the case of petroleum industry spreads, last discussed here in February (see S&P 1500 Refiners Group Outperforming Market, but Spread Normalization Looms), abnormal is becoming the new normal, as if we did not have enough new normality floating ...
APS brings brings training to those who support military families
Alamogordo Daily News
Participants from Roswell, Tucson, Ariz., Clovis and across the Tularosa Basin gathered in Alamogordo last week to learn how to help students "Living in the New Normal." "We have school counselors, nurses, administrators, teachers and base workers here ...
Millenials Feel the Heat from Inaction on Climate Change
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
They know a new normal of weather extremes. The cost is that our physical landscape is forever altered from climate change. Look at the poles: The Guardian reported that a new Atlas will be drawn to show the effects of climate change to date....
El-Erian Says Risk of Extreme Market Outcomes Has Increased
BusinessWeek
El-Erian, who shares the title of chief investment officer with Bill Gross at Newport Beach, California-based Pimco, said higher volatility and extreme outcomes are part of what he has called the “new normal.” Lacking a clear solution from policy ...
Peter Morici at AWMI annual conference: There is no “new normal
SteelOrbis (registration)
He also discredited the constant talk of "new normal," explaining that "there's nothing normal" about the lack of growth in the US economy. "Americans haven't forgotten how to make things," he said. "There just isn't enough demand. ...
We'll Take It From Here
Inside Higher Ed
But as universities that paid companies to hold their hands through the transition grow more comfortable with the “new normal” of running significant online programs, more might shrug off their for-profit partners, says Garrett. ...
Innovation Group Recognized With Four Celent XCelent Awards for Insurer Policy
MarketWatch (press release)
Insurer Policy provides a solution for insurers seeking a new path to success in today's new normal." -- Business Agility - Respond quicker to market changes, M&A, distribution options, new products, market growth opportunities and customer demands ...
Shortages Lead Doctors To Ration Critical Drugs for Wide Range of Problems
SeniorJournal.com
Whatever the tangled causes, all those involved believe drug shortages are the new normal in US medical care. That's why the Mass General recently formed a task force on drug shortages. Its chairman, surgical oncologist Annekathryn Goodman, ...
Team's CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
And I think our kind of underlying expectation of the industry that this would -- the new normal was going to stay very, very good for a long time. We had a lot of expansion activity. Obviously, we had almost white-hot activity up in the oil sands. ...
The Courage of Our Convictions
Real Change News (blog)
We're supposed to accept hat the economic restructuring that is the end game of nearly forty years of widening inequality the New Normal is inevitable. It is not. And Real Change is a reminder to us all that we're much better than that. ...
Sports sometimes get a little too political
Hattiesburg American
One reason why the political nature of sport is often difficult to point out is that as things change, anew normal emerges. One hundred years ago women did not frequently play contact sports because it was believed to be unladylike or that it may hurt ...
How to rescue an Atlanta theater
Creative Loafing Atlanta
Expect bad times to be the New Normal Don't expect corporate support to snap back to pre-slump levels anytime soon, so make a new business plan and explain it to your donors. Says Pendergrass: "Someone from the Nonprofit Finance Fund told us, ...
An antidote for the uncomfortably numb
Canadian HR Reporter (blog)
For example, a recent column in the Globe and Mail warned that, for now, nasty is the new normal for stock markets. And unlike the Pink Floyd song, all this turbulence can leave people feeling “uncomfortably numb.” So how can organizations sustain ...
If American Consumers Won't Save the Economy, Maybe Foreigners Will
TIME
At the moment, the frugal “new normal” has become the norm among American consumers. Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about the economy, according to a new TIME/Money magazine survey, and frugality has become the rule, with shoppers ...
Bad Bank or Not, Is Dexia the Next Long-Term Capital, Lehman, or Bear Stearns?
24/7 Wall St. (blog)
It is the new normal. Look at Greece… Greece had a deal, yet that deal is in jeopardy after the fact. Long-Term Capital imploded and it was a better financial trade for the trading partner banks to break the hedge fund than it was to rescue it. ...
No Double-Digit Returns Anywhere: Pimco's Bill Gross
CNBC.com
To the extent that you can't grow any faster than 1 to 2 percent, which we call the new normal, then corporate profits are really threatened going forward." In his October outlook, Gross said there are three "structural hurricanes" affecting the ...
RON DERBY: Back to reality as recession scenario is entrenched
Business Day
If policy makers focus on structural as opposed to cyclical financial solutions, "new normal growth as opposed to recession might be possible", he said. Markets are saying the solution to all our current woes lies in the hands of European politicians ...
Enviornmental Science News - » Instructors adjust to 'new normal'
By Arizona Daily Sun
Instructors adjust to 'new normal'. Katrina Taylor, whose political science specialty is in environmental movements, is aware of the declining trend in tenured faculty-- it used to be a lot easier for a young scholar to head straight into an assistant ...
Enviornmental Science News
Wal-Mart: The new Neiman Marcus? - Fortune Management
By Nin-Hai Tseng, writer-reporter
Some might call this the so-called "new normal," but Brewer says the downturn has not only changed the way consumers shop but it has also changed the way Wal-Mart has been doing business. Admittedly, Brewer said, the retailer was slow ...
Management and Career
The Accidental CIO: This Time is Different
By Timothy M. Chester
Coupled with continued economic difficulties arising from "the new normal" it is appropriate to question whether the IT organization can continue to exist in its current form. IT organizations must change, they must redefine the way that they add ...
The Accidental CIO
Financial crisis has world teetering on the brink – welcome to the ...
Welcome to the new normal. Billions of pounds were wiped off the value of shares in London on Tuesday 4 October. Dexia, a bank jointly owned by the French ...
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