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Companies Rethink Ho |
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As the labor market tightens and skilled workers become scarce, companies are casting a wider net for employees. For the first time, they find themselves managing four generations of Americans in the workplace. The differences between these generations go beyond their age. Researchers have found that they also approach their jobs and supervisors differently, depending on their generation. |
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Oil Speculators Fina |
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In March 2005, Goldman Sachs warned that the oil market was in the early stages of a “super spike,” and predicted that oil prices could soon rise to $105 a barrel.1 At the time, the price of a barrel of oil stood at $57. |
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Game Changers |
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| Henrik M. Schatzinger 외 |
ǻ | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
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The Age of Watching |
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Back in the early 1990s, a company called Tele-TV tried to launch a new service: television programs delivered over telephone lines. The first problem was that their technology wasn’t ready for prime time. It was still pretty much dream-ware in 1993. |
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New Weapons Are Pois |
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For people of any age, the word “cancer” has carried dire connotations for generations. Until recently, that ominous sense of cancer as a killer was literally true, at least for many forms of the disease. And just 10 years ago, there were few treatments apart from the crude and devastating ones, such as chemotherapy and radiation. |
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