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Monster Employment Index Edges Up In August
the monster employment index rose moderately in august, adding two points, as a majority of industries, occupations, and regions registered increased online job availability, suggesting that u.s. employers began gearing up for the late-summer and fall hiring season. the monster employment index is a monthly gauge of u.s. online job demand based on a real-time review of millions of employer job ...
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Nl Leaders - International Herald Tribune
batting_pujols, st. louis, .360; cjones, atlanta, .358; berkman, houston, .332; holliday, colorado, .328; calee, houston, .314; theriot, chicago, .311; cguzman, washington, .311. runs_hramirez, florida, 107; berkman, houston, 106; beltran, new york ...
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Calpine Corporation Enters Into Employment And Stock Optionagreement ... - Cnbc
houston & san jose, calif., sep 03, 2008 (business wire) -- calpine corporation (nyse:cpn) (the "company") today announced that, in connection with the appointment of john b. (thad) hill as executive vice president and chief commercial officer, the ...
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Pastry Maker Pleads Guilty In Immigration Case
houston -- shipley do-nut flour and supply company inc. pleaded guilty friday to conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants and agreed to pay a $1.3 million forfeiture to the government, federal prosecutors said.
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Unemployment Stats Hit Home Among Job Seekers
debbie gordon has one of those faces that seemingly was meant to smile. for 13 years, she joked and bantered with customers lucky enough to line up at her cash register. then came the layoff. now, her pleasant visage, bathed in the employment service computer's phosphorescent glow, betrays the stress of work not found.
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Chronicle Offers Voluntary Buyouts - Houston Chronicle
the houston chronicle offered voluntary buyouts to its employees today, with a goal of reducing staff by roughly 80 full-time positions, publisher and president jack sweeney said thursday. depending on how many employees request buyouts, layoffs ...
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Monster Employment Index Edges Up In August - Forbes
the monster employment index rose moderately in august, adding two points, as a majority of industries, occupations, and regions registered increased online job availability, suggesting that u.s. employers began gearing up for the late-summer and ...
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Pastry Maker Pleads Guilty In Immigration Case
houston -- federal prosecutors say shipley do-nut flour and supply company inc. pleaded guilty to conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants.
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West Loop Apartment Project Under Way
after knocking down an aging apartment complex just inside the west loop, the morgan group has started building a five-story multifamily project in its place.
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Stock Market Awaits Employment Data - Forbes
investors will be watching the financials closely, as the vultures continue to swirl over the embattled brokerage lehman brothers , which roared into the close wednesday, finishing the day up 5% over speculation on its future. two former credit ...
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Fisher & Phillips Llp Adds Associate To Labor And Employment Practice - Dbusinessnews.com
portland — the portland office of fisher & phillips llp, one of the oldest and largest firms in the country representing management in the areas of labor, employment, civil rights, employee benefits and immigration law, has added laura jordan as an ...
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Continental Details Compensation For New Cfo
(ap:houston) continental airlines inc. said in a regulatory filing friday that new chief financial officer zane rowe will get a minimum base salary of $374,544, similar to two other executive vice presidents.
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'traditional Neighborhoods' Aim For Community Feel
an increasingly popular kind of community is designed to encourage kinship by the way its houses are built and sidewalks and streets laid out.
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Hot Industries Keep Dallas-fort Worth Employment Outlook Bright - Dallas Morning News
a test is given at baylor heart and vascular hospital in dallas. the health- care field is considered recession-proof. the region added 68,000 jobs in the 12 months ended july 31, the most of any u.s. metropolitan area, according to the u.s ...
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Affairs Are Bad Business - Baltimore Sun
consensual or not, when it's the boss involved, office romance doesn't look good. sometimes it's the stuff of watercooler gossip. other times, it's the end of a career. bendix corp. was rocked by scandal during the 1980s when the company's president ...
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Monster Employment Index Edges Up In August
new york----the monster employment index rose moderately in august, adding two points, as a majority of industries, occupations, and regions registered increased online job availability, suggesting that u.s. employers began gearing up for the late-summer and fall hiring season.
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Calpine Corporation Enters Into Employment And Stock Option Agreement With Thad Hill
houston & san jose, calif.----calpine corporation today announced that, in connection with the appointment of john b. hill as executive vice president and chief commercial officer, the company entered into a stock option agreement with mr.
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Grand Jury Indicts Police Chief - East Texas News
crockett police chief jimmy fisher was arrested wednesday, aug. 27 after a houston county grand jury handed down indictments charging him with three counts of credit card or debit card abuse, a state jail felony, and three counts of fraudulent use or ...
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Bush Surveys Gustav Response As Evacuees Head Home - Portland Tribune
new orleans (reuters) - president george w. bush made a quick visit to louisiana on wednesday to survey damage from hurricane gustav as new orleans officials lifted roadblocks to allow tens of thousands who fled the city to return despite widespread ...
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Hiring Illegal Immigrant Labor Has Consequences
in april 2008, imimigration agents took 20 undocumented immigrant workers away from the shipley do-nuts headquarters in north houston. company president lawrence w. shipley iii pled guilty to federal charges in the case in august. employment law attorney barbara gardner explains what the case means to other houston-area businesses and employers.
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