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Congressional gridlock: the new normal?
CNN (blog)
"It's just stressful to be a business owner in this environment," said Hassett, who is a founding partner at the government contracting firm Hassett Willis. She shook her head and added, "This is kind of the way Washington's going to be now. ...
Deutsche Bank CEO says uncertainty is the new normal
Reuters
FRANKFURT Nov 18 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Josef Ackermann said market volatility is the 'new normal' and the sovereign debt crisis will force banks to fundamentally change the way they manage risks and portfolios. ...
We'd better get used to living with the euro crisis. It's the new normal
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
If anything, the current status looks like the new normal. That, at least, is the opinion of one former senior minister who reckons the CBI is completely wrong. Stalemate is by far the most likely outcome. Short of the crisis actually bringing down a ...
David Rosenberg on Market Volatility: “The New Normal is Seeing a Year's Worth ...
Active Investor
The new normal is seeing a year's worth of volatility bunched into 6 ½ hours!” Mr. Rosenberg also believes gold still has strong demand as emerging markets are very bullish on it. “Just a word on gold, which has not been trading well at all in recent ...
The new reality of school funding
North Kitsap Herald
“I think we are looking at the new normal,” she said. Rolfes and Reps. Sherry Appleton and Drew Hansen visited the North Kitsap School District Tuesday night. After a state funding presentation, the legislators took questions from a concerned audience. ...
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn, on Confronting the Five Crises
New York Times (blog)
And that perhaps explains the sellout crowd when Mr. Ghosn appeared as a lunch speaker at the Japan Society in Manhattan on Thursday, with a talk titled The New Normal: Driving Change Through Crisis. Mr. Ghosn, who became chief executive of Nissan in ...
New normal? A year's worth of volatility in 6 1/2 hours
Financial Post
It's been a rough week for stock markets, with big plunges happening across the board in the wake of the worsening contagion scare in Europe. If you're expecting some calm heading into the holiday season, however, economist David Rosenberg has some bad ...
Nov. 18 Herald: Education funding, city reserves, Poulsbo boats, and new Miss ...
North Kitsap Herald
Christine Rolfes says the current state of education funding is the "new normal." The City Council is considering dipping into reserves to balance the 2012 budget. Popularity runs high for Poulsbo's namesake boat. Hannah Price of Poulsbo is the new ...
Overweight on agri-input, FMCG and selectively on IT: Emkay
Myiris.com
The key highlights of the report are as follows: New Normal is flatter growth: The sustenance of high inflation of over 9% even while GDP growth slowed to 7.7% in Q1FY12 (7.2% adjusted) indicates that the non-inflationary (sub 5% inflation) GDP growth ...
BlackRock Veteran Launches New Firm With An Appetite For Acquisition
Forbes
The platform is an answer to the investing world's “new normal”, Baffico says. “There's been a massive disruption in the financial services world which itself is undergoing fundamental changes. But at the end of the day investors' basic needs haven't ...
3 keys to planning professional growth
Washington Technology
This could not be any more critical a statement than now during the “new normal times” we are experiencing in the government contracting. Many of us are involved in the annual company planning season with the advent of either the new fiscal year, ...
Conference Board: US Growth Unlikely To Return To Pre-Recession Levels
Huffington Post
NEW YORK -- High unemployment and slow growth may be the new normal for the US economy, according to leading experts at the Conference Board, a global economic research association. The Conference Board projects that the US economy will take years to ...
Bones Review: Just Toying With Us
TV Fanatic
The first two weeks of Bones' seventh season helped establish the new normal. Last night's installment, while more than adequate, was firmly ingrained within that norm, while continuing similar themes. That's a good thing. We skipped some critical ...
A remarkable story of survival: Paralyzed mom adjusting to new life, new baby
KHOU
by Brad Woodard / KHOU 11 News HOUSTON—As Chyna Young comes to terms with what they call the new normal at TIRR Memorial Hermann, her month-old daughter, Jaida, is embarking on life in the ICU at Children's Memorial Hermann, several blocks away. ...
Adapt to new payment structure — or pay for it
Washington Business Journal
The “new normal” has set in. Yet law firms remain stubbornly set in their ways, especially, and maybe most importantly, in pricing services. To be sure, “value-added” in the professional services arena is hard to quantify. But continuing to charge ...
Duarte to close City Hall during Christmas Week
Pasadena Star-News
"This is our new normal, and if this is our new normal revenue then we need to get our expenses to the new normal," Petersen said. This year's three furlough days alone will save the city approximately $75000. Overall, the city cut $300000 in employee ...
A Push to Promote Familiar Brands Online
New York Times
The phrase “home for the holidays” is more than the new normal for budget-conscious shoppers; it signals an opportunity for marketers to increase sales of popular brands, revive older brands and bring out new brands. More than half of the respondents ...
Report: Global warming probably behind wild weather in N.J. and elswhere
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
"Some people like to say it's a new normal, but really studies have shown it's not the normals where we'll see the greatest changes as our climate shifts. It's at the extremes, it's at the limbs of the tree," Robinson said. If New Jersey's recent bouts ...
Weekly Wrap: Bank of America's PR Troubles
MyBankTracker.com
Meanwhile, CEO Brian Moynihan made a presentation to industry insiders in New York on Friday, more or less admitting that retail banking is not a successful business model these days, and that they will have to adjust to a “new normal” — that well ...
Kathmandu's first-half sales rise
Otago Daily Times
However, he said on the outlook, the new normal for the market was its volatility and unpredictability, with more competition both regionally and globally for the "attractive" active-outdoor market. "We're unlikely to see improvement in retail ...
Occupy Miami protesters march as part of nationwide "day of action"
MiamiHerald.com
“This is the new normal,” said Bruce Wayne, 27, a freelance graphic designer who has camped here since Oct. 15 and runs Occupy Miami's social media. “We're not leaving until the world changes around us. We are ahead of the curve. We are not going away. ...
All too often this season, NFL coaches are losing their cool and setting poor ...
ESPN
The new normal, apparently, is coaches screaming loudly and petulantly. Think about it. In what other industry would the CEO of one company try to chase down and confront the CEO of another company because of an overzealous handshake and slap on the ...
Rivers link the past and present, sentinels to an uncertain future
The Age
What used to be drought, it seems, is our new normal. Meanwhile, in New England, flooding on a new scale, with an increasing frequency, gouges away roads, gashes up trees. Small, unprosperous communities ponder how they will find money to renew bridges ...
Rational or not, crisis seeps into euro zone core
Reuters
Still, wider yield spreads may be the new normal for even sound euro zone countries until policymakers convince markets the bloc can pull out of its debt-crisis nosedive. Fritz Mostboeck, head of group research at Erste Global Markets in Vienna, ...
Water's Economics as Muddy as Ever
blogs.hbr.org (blog)
It's time for companies operating in the many dry regions around the world to equip themselves with the tools and mindset they need to navigate this new normal. While access to water has been recognized as a basic human right, it is also increasingly ...
Words to live by: Robin Sharma
Vancouver Sun
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal." "Many people are spending the best years of their lives living their neighbour's lives. We buy into a definition of success sold to us by ...
University faculty to chancellor: "We are not your ATM!"
People's World
"Like Wall Street and the Bank of America, you are using us as ATMs while asking us to accept that this is the new normal." This year the state legislature has cut some $650 million from the California State University system, and CSU faces the ...
Catholic Charities kicks off Christmas Appeal
St.Louis Review
“We're trying to adjust to a new normal,” Wallensak said. “Jobs are scarce. If you lose a job, it will take longer to find a new one, and the resources nonprofits have are also more scarce, in part because our donors are losing their incomes. ...
Motivating Everyday Green Behavior With Real Rewards
PSFK
At the recent Games for Change Festival, Al Gore said “games are the new normal” and that “the gamification trend is really powerful” in helping to solve issues like climate change. An April report issued by Gartner predicted that by 2015, ...
County supervisors vote for modest increase in budget; salt shed to be built
Barron News Shield
"The new normal is budgeting for 12 months," Pannier added. His amendment passed by a close roll call vote of 14 in favor, 12 against. In one of the shortest budget debates in recent years, the overall budget resolution quickly followed. ...
Gross Calls Europe Top Worry as Fink Sees Risky German Ploy
San Francisco Chronicle
Fink said in January that he never believed in an economic scenario outlined by Pimco under the term "new normal" that described an extended period of below- average growth for the US following the 2008 financial crisis. The two managers, both alumni ...
Terrorism or Thought Crimes?
Harvard Crimson
In an age of Islamophobic hysteria and fear at the prospect of “homegrown terror,” having the government pressure young men at mosques to turn in their friends for talking about being angry has become the new normal. And for Tarek Mehanna, ...
Endure and Prosper In the Face of Adversity
Carolina Journal
Today, delaying purchases, paying in cash, and cutting up credit cards is the new normal — a way of trying to create security heading into yet another year of staggering unemployment and only marginal economic recovery in sight. ...
XE.com - Deutsche Bank CEO says uncertainty is the new normal
Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Josef Ackermann said market volatility is the 'new normal' and the sovereign debt crisis will force banks to fundamentally change the way they manage risks and portfolios.
XE Forex News
Finding My New Normal: Random Crying Jags
By My New Normal
Tales from an American Expat living in London. Dealing with the loss of a child is never easy, but it's even more difficult when you live so far from home. Life will never be "normal" again and so now the challenge is to find my new normal. ...
Finding My New Normal
Nissan C.E.O. Carlos Ghosn, on Confronting the Five Crises ...
By By JIM MOTAVALLI
And that perhaps explains the sellout crowd when Mr. Ghosn appeared as a lunch speaker at the Japan Society in Manhattan on Thursday, with a talk titled The New Normal: Driving Change Through Crisis. Mr. Ghosn, who became chief ...
Wheels
Gift Hub: The Designated Difficult One
By Phil Cubeta
The healthiest thing about many a thriving family is the sickest and most recalcitrant kid. To reform them produces and reproduces nothing but the horrowshow of the new normal. What mentor turned G.W. around and made him so normal, ...
Gift Hub
Report: Global warming probably behind wild weather in N.J. and ...
By Star-Ledger
"Some people like to say it's a new normal, but really studies have shown it's not the normals where we'll see the greatest changes as our climate shifts. It's at (Read more...) Link to original article / Continue Reading... The Star-Ledger is New ...
SierraActivist
The Energy Diet Challenge: Part 1 | Today I ate a Rainbow! TM
By Kia
This way of life is our new normal. But how far can we bend? We'll never know unless we are constantly challenging ourselves, and others, to rethink how we all view our resources. As a family, we committed these next three months and ...
Today I ate a Rainbow! TM
Pascrell Speaks Out Against Proposed Gun Law | Baristanet
By Christina Gillham
Wait until it's a gang from one of the southern gun happy states rolling thru and out of state gang home invasions become the new normal. I fully support the 2nd amendment but Kristen is right – what about states rights? POSTED BY Mrs ...
Baristanet
Chop In the Box | UpsideTrader
By UpsideTrader
This is definitely the new normal for now until either gores bankrupt or finds a howitzer like band aid for their ills. The world is now waiting for the ECB to save their bacon but Merkel is saying, “not on my watch.” In the meantime, we are trapped ...
UpsideTrader
Further Evidence to Ministers' to Support FBU Position on Normal ...
By Webmaster
Recommendation 14 of the final 'Hutton Report' said the Government should therefore consider setting a new Normal Pension Age of 60 across the uniformed services. The FBU has presented substantial evidence to demonstrate that after ...
Fire Brigades Union
Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action: the 1% Strikes Back
By Elias Isquith
I hope this kind of civil unrest isn't merely another aspect of the “new normal” of Great Recession America; but, unfortunately, I'm sensing that it is. What's especially worrisome is seeing how violent and unruly police are already, when the ...
Flower & Thistle
David Rosenberg: "The New Normal Is Seeing A Year's Worth Of ...
The new normal is seeing a year's worth of volatility bunched into 6 ½ hours!"And concluding with Rosie's take on the yellow metal:Just a word on gold, which ...
www.zerohedge.com/.../david-rosenberg-new-normal-seeing-...
BofA CEO opines on 'new normal' | The News Journal ...
Chief Executive Officer Brian T. Moynihan said that slow economic growth and new regulations mean that the 'new normal' in retail banking won't be as ...
www.delawareonline.com/.../BofA-CEO-opines-new-normal-
 

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