Saturday, December 3, 2011

When Frugal Becomes the New Normal

When Frugal Becomes the New Normal
Wall Street Journal
Whichever figures you use, though, there's no question Britons owe a lot of money. With only modest prospects for economic growth, they'll be paying off debt for a very long time indeed. During this period, frugality is bound to become the new normal.
Timnath teachers, students adapt to new normal
The Coloradoan
Rich Abrahamson/The Coloradoan About 220 students at Timnath Elementary School are adjusting to a new normal after being temporarily displaced from their classrooms due to a ceiling collapse in a fourth-grade classroom during the Thanksgiving holiday. ...
Deb Roschen: 'New normal' requires Wabasha County to cut spending
Post-Bulletin
I think we are observing all levels of government entering into a new “normal” as it relates to funding and prioritizing government services. Wabasha County will not be immune from these changes and we need to work together to meet these changes with a ...
Al Gore: Games Are The New Normal
PSFK
By Piers Fawkes on December 2, 2011 Games are the new normal. The popularity and proliferation of smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices—coupled with a wide variety of social networking platforms—provide fertile ground for the incorporation ...
Petrobras CEO at Platts Global Energy Outlook Forum: Tight Oil Market Is "New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
1, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The era of cheap oil is over and "the new normal will be a very tight oil market," said Petrobras Chief Executive Officer Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo to the fifth annual Platts Global Energy Outlook Forum, ...
Report urges new tactics to end drug-development drought
FierceBiotech
Drug developers must drastically change tactics to confront a "new normal" development drought that persists despite greater R&D spending, consultants at Oliver Wyman find in a new report. Pharmalot highlighted the results in a story that places the ...
'A New Reality' at Artisans Enterprise Center
Cincinnati.com
“The recent changes in our lives, often referred to as 'the new normal' have come to many as a consequence of the 2007 economic decline and the resulting political and governmental responses,” Heider commented. “These events have required many to ...
Snyder to Motown: Drop Dead
MyFox Detroit
Poor is the new normal. And please -- no pushing when standing on line for your block of welfare cheese. That is the naked truth. We're going to have to live with less for the foreseeable future. There is no money. The factory jobs are not coming back. ...
[PR Blog] The new normal ('Hogwash!')
Journal Record (subscription)
This is the new normal.” Have your facts straight and ready to show. Be over-the-top transparent. Respond to factual allegations with facts. Be proactive. If you think it's tough to gain the public's trust when you released the story yourself, ...
New Techniques to Manage Sovereign Credit Risk
AllAboutAlpha.com (blog)
It seems as if every other day some pundit is declaring whatever is happening in the markets as “the new normal,” or an event is a “market-changing black swan.” In truth, there is very little that might be considered “normal” in the current trading ...
Procurement News from the US -- Weekly Round-Up
Spend Matters UK/Europe
We're putting on our next conference, Commodity Edge: Sourcing Intelligence for the New Normal. It's a business-to-business commodity risk event, featuring: More information and official registration will be announced in a few weeks, but save the date! ...
Big data = smaller government
GCN.com
By Paul McCloskey It's becoming more obvious every day that doing more with less — by individuals, businesses and government agencies — is the new normal. As the economy appears to be undergoing a global reset in which US firms can tap offshore labor ...
Have we killed the entrepreneurial spirit?
Inside Tucson Business
We are in for a long-haul; a new normal. We see this malaise in shuttered business, home foreclosures and employee layoffs. Like downturns in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we thought "here we go again." Before long business will come back to normal. ...
'We're Just Looking Forward' Say Parents of Wayland Teen Runaway
Patch.com
In the aftermath, according to Tony Loftis, they are working hard to move forward and discover their new “normal.” For now, normal doesn't mean having their daughter at home, though evidence of Allie's presence is everywhere in the Loftis' North ...
Instant view: Jobless rate drops to 8.6 percent, hiring picks up
Reuters
"We are descending into a new normal. We are stabilizing into a pattern. It's not exactly something where all of a sudden people are anticipating a major improvement." "This is a pretty handsome looking report in my mind. "The US has clearly turned a ...
Romney says lowered unemployment rate not low enough
The Hill (blog)
"The Obama administration may have come to accept such a high level of joblessness as the new normal. I will never accept it," Romney said in a statement released by his presidential campaign. "Today's unemployment figures bring to 34 the number of ...
Wal-Mart's Asda Sees Delay Overtaking Tesco in UK Non-Food
BusinessWeek
Asda's objective of surpassing its rival by 2015 may be hindered by a slowing economy, with a volatile consumer climate and increased sourcing costs becoming the “new normal,” George Managing Director Andrew Moore said in an interview. ...
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE: Suburbs' new ways
Puget Sound Business Journal
Demographics, demand, market forces and, of course, rents, jobs and taxes all seem to indicate that the Puget Sound region can expect to see more of these developments. Add 2030 and 2040 growth targets and this trend could be a “new normal” for our ...
When politics sacrifice the world
The New Age Online
However, on another level, the trend of odd and extreme weather patterns – what has been dubbed “global weirding” – is hard to ignore and looks set to continue as once-in-a-lifetime extreme weather events become the “new normal”. ...
Surplus leaves Idaho, and Otter, with a $130 million question
The Idaho Statesman
Butch Otter, who said in a recent guest opinion that a leaner state government must become the “new normal.” But Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, put it aptly Thursday: There are now 105 game plans in play, one for every lawmaker. ...
Outsourcing Jobs, Offshoring Markets
CounterPunch
Alan Nasser is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. This article is adapted from his book in progress, The “New Normal”: Chronic Austerity and the Decline of Democracy. ...
About this article
The Guardian (blog)
The Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog, which predicts Austerity will be the new normal. Picking up on the Office for Budget Responsibility projection that 710000 public sector jobs are to go, blogger Rick reminds readers of the treatment meted out to ...
Jobless in Austin
Austin News
“Whether this is the new normal or not, we're just not sure yet." Standing at a busy intersection, holding a sign and pacing the median is the new normal for Washington. She'll stay here until she makes rent for her hotel room for one more night. ...
Pent-up demand powers November auto sales
The Detroit News
"This is not the new normal," said analyst Jessica Caldwell of Edmunds.com, who described recent sales gains as a bubble. "I don't expect 2012 to be building from this point." Automakers are offering big year-end incentives and spending even more to ...
Policing's 'new normal' doesn't work with white folks | Davis Enterprise
By Special to The Enterprise
Policing's 'new normal' doesn't work with white folks. By Daniel Filler. We have reached an important crossroads in American policing. In the aftermath of the UC Davis pepper spray debacle, people are finally tuning in to the militarization of ...
Davis Enterprise
The Arctic's New Normal – Warmer, Greener and Less Ice | Ocean ...
By Press Release
An international team of scientists who monitor the rapid changes in the Earth's northern polar region say that the Arctic is entering a new state – one with warmer air and water temperatures, less summer sea ice and snow cover, and a ...
Ocean Power Magazine
REITs Key to Maximizing Returns in 'New Normal' Economy ...
By iphonegame
www.reit.com To reach retirement income goals especially in an anticipated lower return, higher volatility environment, defined contribution (DC) plan participa.
Pension Retirement Planning
Cancer Experts and Patients Redefine Cancer's “New Normal ...
By Penn Medicine
Penn Medicines Focus on Cancer blog discusses a variety of cancer-related topics, including cancer treatment advances, cancer research efforts and clinical trials for cancer, nutrition for cancer, support groups for cancer, cancer survivorship ...
Focus on Cancer
Dancing With Cancer: Living With Mets, A New Normal: What Jews ...
By Jill
Living With Mets, A New Normal. I got breast cancer in 1999 at age 39. It came back in 2002 when I was 42 and has metastasized (spread) to more than 20 bone sites. Just after I turned 49 it came back a third time (in the same breast) and a ...
Dancing With Cancer: Living With...
Food Banks Become 'New Normal' for Millions - BCNN1
Anne Cleary,; Chicago,; cutting waste,; Darrell Kelly,; donating food,; Feeding America,; food banks,; food pantries,; food rescues,; Hillside Free Methodist Church Pantry,; Maiya Lueptow,; new normal,; Roger Schmith,; Ross Fraser,; survival ...
BCNN1 - Black Christian News
Loving A Soldier Blog: The ELF Has Arrived...
By The New "Normal"
And having Penny the Elf around to keep the kids in check, that will definitely help with my sanity! :). Happy Holidays to you all! What special traditions do you keep during the holiday season? TwitThis. Posted by The New "Normal". Author: Kris ...
Loving A Soldier Blog
Fuel Fix » Petrobras CEO at Platts Global Energy Outlook Forum ...
By PR Newswire: Energy
Petrobras CEO at Platts Global Energy Outlook Forum: Tight Oil Market Is "New Normal" ...Petrobras CEO at Platts Global Energy Outlook Forum: Tight Oil Market Is "New Normal". Posted on December 1, 2011 at 6:49 pm by PR Newswire: ...
Fuel Fix
Analysis of Amtrak Study Part II
By David P. Jordan
In order to operate the proposed rail shuttle service between the new Normal, Illinois passenger station and the proposed new station stop at East Peoria, a new connection track is required between the UP and NS railroads at Bloomington ...
Peoria Station
Game On: Business Transformation Taking Hold in the Channel
By Carolyn April
Channel partners of varying sizes, skill sets, business models, customer demographics and even personal goals will have distinct roles to play in this “new normal” world. In an effort to better understand the complexities of channel business ...
CompTIA Blog
Warmer, Greener, Less Icy Arctic Becomes "New Normal": Scientific ...
The Arctic has transformed in recent years into a warmer region, a new government assessment concludes.
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=warmer...less...
Global Warming Has Pushed the Arctic into a "New Normal," Report ...
Arctic climate change is altering weather patterns in the US and Europe, according to the 2011 Arctic Report Card. The report shows a region redrawn by global ...
www.climatecentral.org/.../global-warming-has-pushed-the-arc...
New Normal for Law Schools? - ABA Journal
It was intriguing to see the New York Times masthead editorial calling for reform after a news piece on the perils of law school education. I am speaking at the ...
www.abajournal.com/.../the_gray_lady_and_the_matrix/?...
Public sector austerity will be the new normal – for the next 20 years ...
Economics suggest that we are unlikely to return to levels of public funding once considered normal, says Steven Toft.
www.guardian.co.uk/.../worst-public-sector-cuts-come?...
710000 jobs to go – Austerity will be the new normal | Flip Chart ...
710000 jobs to go – Austerity will be the new normal. Posted on 2 December, 2011 by Rick. One person who won't have been surprised by this week's economic ...
flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/.../710000-jobs-to-go-austeri...
Schools deal with 'new normal' in testing | The Enquirer ...
Local students are almost guaranteed to post lower scores on state tests this year , not because they're performing worse but because the state has toughened ...
www.battlecreekenquirer.com/.../Schools-deal-new-normal-tes...
Coming to Grips With the New Normal - Investor Uprising
Maybe consumers have simply come to the realization that things may not be the same as they were back in 2007 for a very long time.
www.investoruprising.com/author.asp?section_id=1297...
Market Volatility is the New Normal
Tim Iacono After yesterday's big 490 point move higher for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to cap off a month of four 200+ point UP days to go along with.
www.themarketguardian.com/.../market-volatility-is-the-new-n...
TaxProf Blog: The New Normal for Law Schools?
December 2, 2011. The New Normal for Law Schools? ABA Journal, The New Normal for Law Schools?, by Paul Lippe (Founder and CEO, Legal OnRamp): ...
taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2011/12/the-new.html


New normal for Bank of Korea
Xinhua
2 (Xinhua) -- Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and co-chief investment officer at PIMCO, coined the concept and phrase "new normal" to describe the post-financial-crisis world of muted growth. In the new normal world, the economy grew at a slower speed, ...
Global warming: winners and losers in the Arctic's 'new normal'
Christian Science Monitor
Global warming has brought a new normal to the Arctic, with warmer air and ocean temperatures, thinner and less expansive summer sea ice, and greener vegetation in coastal regions abutting the open water. In addition, longer periods of open water ...

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