The Times Issue

Wal-Mart Health Care Cost Hike Causing a Stir

jmaslow — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:30:06 +0000

A big concern in today’s economy is health care. It’s always been expensive, whether it’s a routine physical, a special test or procedure, or even prescription drug coverage. Many people know what it’s like to go without it. Now, the nation’s largest private employer is scaling back on its employees’ eligibility for the company’s health [...]

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High Paying Work-from-Anywhere Jobs

jmaslow — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:29:01 +0000

In days gone by, people entering the workforce for the first time had a specific view of what it would look like when they exited the workforce 25 or 30 years later. They saw themselves working their fingers to the bone for one employer and in the end at a retirement party surrounded by family, [...]

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Computers Replacing Human Workers at High Rate

jmaslow — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:13:34 +0000

I could lose my new temp job, proofreading for a publishing company, to another more-productive or more-qualified human, but probably never to a machine. Unless science and technology can create a program that will evaluate every single nuance of the English language, they’ll be able to run spell-check and the basic grammar check they do [...]

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Democrats Use Protest to Garner 2012 Votes

Editor — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:07:46 +0000

The Occupy Wall Street protest has gone political. It was already political, but now politicians are getting involved. The Democrats are rallying around the protest in order to syphon the movement’s energy toward more votes in 2012. The dems hope that by sharpening their contrasts with Republican opponents of the movement they’ll win the confidence [...]

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Lawmakers Seek Probe into Bank Debit Card Fees

Editor — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:03:18 +0000

Democratic lawmakers are taking a line from Scooby Doo’s “Freddy.” The character known for the idea of splitting up and taking the two women with him and sending “fraidy-cats” Shaggy and Scooby out on their own may say “this all seems a bit fishy to me” regarding big banks’ near simultaneous announcements of fees for [...]

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Bank Fees Leading Consumers to Other Services

jmaslow — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:57:35 +0000

I have yet to decide to take all my money out of the bank and stuff it under my mattress or in an old coffee can, although I’m not ruling that out anytime soon. Banks are establishing albeit small fees, but fees nonetheless, for services that were previously free. The announcement that started all the [...]

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The Art of Halloween Promotion

jmaslow — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:37:05 +0000

Something wicked this way comes at the end of October, and with it brings the opportunity for the retail and business sector. Retail has watched the year-on-year growth in the popularity of Halloween products. October 31st 2010 was reportedly worth £280m to the retail sector so businesses that can tap into this “more lucrative than [...]

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A New Frontier for Writers of Faith

jmaslow — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:15:32 +0000

For people of faith with a penchant for writing, now is a very exciting time to be a wordsmith. The publishing world has seen radical changes recently, none more so than the arrival of the E-Reader. Technological advances in the capabilities of E-Readers combined with the ease of self-publishing have opened up an entirely new [...]

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Google Has Done It Again

jmaslow — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:56:32 +0000

Google’s Done it Again! The Ngram Viewer is a Hit Among Researchers and Students Want to know how common it was for people to have pets back in the 1800s? Or maybe you want to find out when it was that Christmas really started becoming a common word (it became popular around the turn of [...]

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Steve Jobs: 3 lessons for business success

jmaslow — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:38:40 +0000

For the last twenty-five years, the most successful CEO in the US had been Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple. And throughout his career, there has never been any question as to the fact that he has helped shape Apple into the company it is now. Despite the fact that he showed signs of [...]

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