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Women's Labor and Infertility

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, Later Motherhood, Infertility, Labor Day, Resolve, Health Care Reform, Birth Control, Work-Life Balance, Business, Delayed Childbearing, Living, Women's Work, Fathers, Living News

Released from old biological constraints, women have flooded the universities and climbed career ladders, redefining "women's work" by expanding it to include just about every field, and doubling our national talent pool.

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NYT: Government Pays Legal Bills For Executives That Defrauded The Government

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Freddie Mac, Bailout, Fannie Takeover, Legal Defense Bills, Leanne Spencer, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Franklin Raines, Business, Fannie Mae, Politics News

As a result of the Fannie takeover, taxpayers are paying millions of dollars in legal defense bills for three top former executives, including Frankli...

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Obama Administration Policies Will Divert Funds From Middle Class Economy

Chris Gunn | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Small, General Electric, Raytheon, Fortune 500, 3m, Abuse, Lockheed Martin, Small Busniess, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Economy, Rolls-Royce, Middle Class, Textron, Lloyd Chapman, Loopholes, Business, General Dynamics, Fraud, AT&T, Fortune 1000, Barack Obama, Office Depot, Xerox, British Aerospace (BAE), American Small Business League, Dell Computer, Business News

We project that by counting big businesses in the United States and Europe as small businesses the Obama Administration may be shortchanging middle class firms out of as much as $100 billion a year in contracts.

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Obama Officials Avoided Questions from Press on Misleading Contracting Data

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

According to information in the Federal Procurement Data System, eight of the top ten recipients of federal small business contracts were actually large businesses or divisions of large businesses.

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Take Your Career from Good to Great

Rick Smith | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Careers, Business, Money, Midlife, Business News

The world is full of ordinary people, everyday Joes and Janes, who have broken free from average performance and achieved extraordinary levels of impact and accomplishment.

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The New Power Girls: Women Entrepreneurs On How To Deliver Your Company's Message, Plus Enter to Win Contest

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs, Women in Business, Business, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations, The New Power Girls, Business News

Today, as platforms to deliver your company's message expand, it's even more important to have a tight focus on what you want to say, to who and where.

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Syngenta, Maker Of Weed-Killer Atrazine, Wants Lobbying Documents Excluded From Class-Action Lawsuit

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Lobbyists, Lobbying, Atrazine, Politics, Weed-Killer, Syngenta, Chemical Company, Illinois. Class-Action Lawsuit, Business, Drinking Water, Herbicide, Green News

Lawyers representing the maker of the herbicide atrazine are asking that documents related to the company's lobbying and trade association activities ...

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Labor-Environmental Coalition Targets Wal-Mart

The Washington Post | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Walmart, Environmental Groups, Ufcw, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Health Care, Low Wages, Green, Business, Home News

Labor groups renewed their campaign against Wal-Mart on Tuesday, launching a coalition that calls for improvements in the company's wages, health care...

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Taking on Jim Cramer

Jim Randel | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Investing, Tax Credits, Finance, Fed, Economy, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Business, Housing Crisis, Jim Cramer, Business News

Jim Cramer may like housing stocks, but if he is betting his ranch on the fact that housing prices will spike again like they did in the early part of this century, he'd better hedge his bets.

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Empty Is as Empty Does

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Small Business, Retail Industry, Housing Prices, Suburbia, Economy, Recession Fears, Business, Recession, Housing Slump, Housing Crisis, Business News

In a formerly rural part of Long Island, many bountiful farm stands used to flourish. Now there are very few, as the land that had produced the harvests was sold during past abundant years to builders and developers.

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DLC: The New Black! The Second Coming of Expansion Packs

Theodore Bergquist | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Apple, Beatles Rock Band, Videogames, Rock Band, Digital Downloads, Music Business, Entertainment Industry, Gamersgate, Business, Video Games, Downloading, DLC Video Games, Dlc, Media News

There's been a lot of talk about downloadable content for video games recently. There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a significant, fast growing trend here.

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CEO on Doing Business With India, Ahead of Presidential Visit

Rani Singh | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

The CEO of the UK-India Business Council discusses her thoughts on the way the British do business in India, compared with their American counterparts.

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Work BFFs: The Do's & Don'ts

Nicole Williams | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Friendship, Office, Relationships, Business, Work, Work Etiquette, Office Etiquette, Relationships at Work, Relationship Advice, Friendship at Work, Business News

A day at the office is so much more enjoyable when you have a work BFF to share your ups, downs, and blueberry muffin with. But office friendships can hurt your career if you don't handle them the right way.

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Harry Reid To Las Vegas Review-Journal Ad Director: "I Hope You Go Out Of Business"

Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Advertising, Harry Reid, Newspaper, Media, Business, Sherman Frederick, Media News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly didn't hold back during a recent engagement with The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. According to The L...

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Shari Arison: Israel's Richest Woman Says She Can See the Future

The Washington Post | Howard Schneider | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Regression Therapy, See Future, Books, Media, Katrina, Future, Business, Essence of Life, Brian Weiss, Clairvoyant, Tel Aviv, Philanthropy, Tsunami, Shari Arison, Regression Therapy and Brian Weiss, Carnival Cruise Lines, Israel, Israel's Richest Woman, World News

The office door has a steel vault veneer, and Shari Arison -- controlling stockholder in Israel's largest bank and its largest construction company, h...

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The Recession is Over

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, Economy, Federal Reserve, Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke, Business, Barack Obama, Recession, Home News

I'm on record as saying we'll have started to see positive GDP numbers between the 4th quarter of this year and the second quarter of next year. The numbers are pointing in that direction.

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10 "Bulletproof Your Relationship Tips" for the Unemployed

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Santa Claus, Bulletproof Your Job, Unemployment Rate, Career, Resumes, Unemployed, Job, Office, Laid Off, Business, Family, Living News

Are these questions familiar? How many resumes did you send out today? Did you call so and so? How about going back on the search engines? Why is the house such a mess if you are home all day?

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The Arrogance of Fear and What to Do About It

Karen Luniw | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Neagle, Success, Fear Mongering, Change, Fear, Solutions, Hope, Recession Fears, Business, Luniw, Living News

Whether it's a reformed health care system, a new job, a new place to live or to solve a business problem -- in order to get something new, we have to change.

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We Planned for a Depression and Now it is Not Going To Happen

Paul David Walker | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Recession Fears, Recession Watch, Business, Ecnomic Meltdown, Home News

Could this be the beginning of a new rally? Should we start to buy stocks?

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The New Power Girls: Is the Credit Crunch Hurting Women Startups?

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Owning a Startup, Small Business, Women Founders, Female Founders, Women Startups, Women Entrepreneurs, Credit Crunch, The New Power Girls, Women in Business, Entrepreneurship, Business, Business News

Today's new modern women entrepreneurs and executives know the power of networking and support. In fact, they live by it.

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Five Reasons for Consumer Caution

Jim Randel | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumers, Media, Spending, Investing, Jobless Rate, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business, Housing Crisis, Consumer Confidence, Consumer Spending, Business News

The Great Recession may be technically ending, but I recommend that consumers proceed with caution.

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Microsoft's Ad In Poland Photoshops Black Man, But Keeps Asian Man, White Woman

Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Photoshop, Black Americans, Poland, Advertising, Microsoft, Asian Americans, Racism, Race, Business, African Americans, Business News

Doing business abroad sometimes requires companies to tweak their marketing strategies. Companies often swap idiomatic phrases or images in advertisem...

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5 Signs You Need a Career Reinvention

Nicole Williams | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Reinvention, Jobs, Career, Business, Work, Living News

When else will you have as little to lose, as much to gain, and a greater competitive edge over people who've already succumbed to their unfulfilled fates?

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What Makes Successful CEOs Tick?

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Leadership, Mentors, Business, Talent, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Don Shula, Successful CEOs, Ceos, Malcolm Gladwell, CEO Traits, Business News

What makes for uber-success? It is not sheer intellect, and it's not only social skill. It is, as Malcolm Gladwell defines talent, deliberate practice.

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The Human Element: Is Your Internship Program Helping or Hurting?

Jon Younger | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Internships, Employees, Business, Recruiting, Management, Talent, Talent Pools, Strong Internship Programs, Ge, Internship Programs, Exxon Mobil, Enhancing Your Talent Pool, Interns, Business News

A strong internship program is a powerful tool for attracting top talent; companies can build a strong relationship with schools or other talent pools. But they can also be a reputational WMD.

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