Monday, January 23, 2012

End of the party: Wall Street tightens belt

End of the party: Wall Street tightens belt
Monsters and Critics.com
'New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and Restrained' ran the headline in The New York Times. 'Wall Street employees are feeling the squeeze this bonus season,' the paper said. For the present, the days when the Ferrari was all but paid for and the ...

Rediscovering the Missouri River
Bismarck Tribune
People wondered what the new normal would be. Then, last weekend, ice jammed south of Bismarck-Mandan and the river began rising. The National Weather Service issued a flood warning as the river rose 5 feet through Friday and Saturday before it began ...

Finance sector faces big squeeze with low credit growth and high dollar
The Australian
"It has finally sunk in that weak credit growth may be the new normal," the report says. "With the eurozone crisis haunting the horizon and rumours of Japanese competition in the mortgage market, 2012 may be a tough year for finance. ...

Slacking off on climate is just not cricket
ABC Online
By then, the compensation, as well as the price on pollution, will simply be the new normal. The CEFC will unlock tens of billions of dollars of new investment, paving the way for Australia to become a global leader in renewable energy. ...

ABC Online

US and the ambivalent nature of debt
Financial Times
Since Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian introduced the concept of the “new normal” in 2009, pretty much everyone has paid lip-service to the idea that a decade of deleveraging and subdued growth awaits, at best. Except … when it comes to forecasts by ...

Departing chief economist assesses state's strengths, weaknesses
The Seattle Times
We have to get back to a new normal. I started this job 15 days after the collapse of Lehman, and I immediately took down the (revenue) forecast by $2 billion. (Such a large downward revision) had never been done before. But it wasn't enough. ...

Super funds struggle to meet long-term targets
InvestorDaily
"We have entered a lower return environment, with some calling it the 'new normal'." The research firm said there was a greater focus on delivering 'consistent' returns rather than aiming for maximum performance. "As such, funds need to reassess their ...

Where technology joins compassion
Greensboro News & Record
Hislop said, referencing “Finding Your New Normal,” an eight-week class with open discussion. As many as 40 clinical trials are taking place at any given time. Current trials focus on breast, cervix and endometrial cancers, among others, ...

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By Tom
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Cosmology

Being Laid Off Opened a New Career Door for Nicki Beekman ...
By Caroline Dowd-Higgins
Her business continues to adapt to accommodate the needs of her clients and now she also includes social media marketing on her menu of services. Even in the new normal of the changing business economy, nothing beats networking and ...
Caroline Dowd-Higgins

“2012 – The New Normal: Innovation, Hyper-niching, and ...
The “new normal” says nothing will ever be normal again. Instead, deep substantial change is transforming nations, markets, industries, jobs, and knowledge.
www.jimcarroll.com/.../2012-the-new-normal-innovation-hyp...

After meds, the new normal....
After meds, the new normal....: If you ever had a serious illness of any kind, a doctor or nurse talked to you about your "new normal"--and by that they meant that ...
www.mdjunction.com/.../3404515-after-meds-the-new-normal

The New Normal May Seem Abnormal — Collaboration and Multiple ...
The New Normal May Seem Abnormal — Collaboration and Multiple Funding Sources by THOMAS R. TAVELLA, FASLA, LEED AP and G. WADE WALKER, PE ...
downtowncrossingnewhaven.com/documents/new_normal.pdf

Two years after Olympic glory, Sidney Crosby faces new normal, uncertain future
Washington Post
PITTSBURGH — The moment is etched in Canadian hockey lore. There's Sidney Crosby, standing in the corner of the ice after scoring the biggest goal in a life filled with big goals, arms raised, gloves flung halfway to the Rogers Arena ceiling. ...

'Blueprints of the Afterlife' review: Weird is the new normal
OregonLive.com
By Anne Saker, The Oregonian The main character of Seattle writer Ryan Boudinot's second novel is not a person. It's a point in time, in a misty future, although not so far ahead that we have lost the memory of Will Ferrell. This point in time follows ...

OregonLive.com

Ketchum Begins Talks on Remaking Its Image
Twin Falls Times-News
So the city went back to the drawing board this week, trying to remake its image and its goals to fit what one person called “the new normal.” Nearly 100 businesspeople and residents attended two focus groups to define what needs to go into the new ...
1/22: College consolidation in Georgia
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
But, as Thomas Longin, board president of the Society for College and University Planning, said, “Everyone is real clear now that the new normal doesn't look anything like a growth model, and, no matter what else you do, you are going to have to ...

IBM Lotusphere 2012 – Socializing 'Social Business'
UCStrategies
It seems IBM has a vision of a new type of business that will live in a "new normal" (they used that phrase a lot) of social network interactions. Certainly, they did not argue that business was not social in the past – far from that. ...

Sachin Tendulkar is a reservoir of peace, focus and determination surrounded ...
Herald Sun
Chaos is the new normal. Loud is the new quiet. Dhaka, as a city, has ceased to function. I'm trying to follow the game. I know Tendulkar is a star, so I focus on him. I cannot tell what makes him special. Then, before I know it, he's out, finished for ...

Will Saving the Environment Require a Shorter Work Week?
OpEdNews
To lay the foundations for a "steady-state" economy -- one that can continue running sustainably forever, this recent paper argues that it's time for advanced developed countries to transition to a new normal: the 21-hour work week. ...

Phone system up and running at Zappos
Las Vegas Review-Journal
But it's a new normal," spokeswoman Diane Coffee said. Zappos takes 4 percent of its orders by phone.customer-service representatives could handle customer e-mails about the security breach. A Zappos publicist said Friday that managers were watching ...

Pawlenty Defends Unlimited Campaign Donations As Citizens United ...
ThinkProgress
Other outside spending groups will undoubtedly follow suit, just as they did in a major way during the 2010 election: This massive influx of unregulated campaign spending will almost certainly be the new normal as wealthy individuals and corporations ...

ThinkProgress

The end of a geopolitical affair
Hindustan Times
US officials are talking about a “new normal” in their Pakistan relations. This would cut ties to the bare bones: counterterrorism cooperation, limited military transit requirements, Afghan talks, narcotics and some humanitarian assistance. ...

A victory for intolerance
Daily Pioneer
Over the years, intolerance is fast turning into the new normal with every group and religious denomination jumping into the fray. From a historical work on Shivaji, the title of a film and the morality of women to theological disputations, ...

States Lead Effort to Utilize Data in Education
Governing (blog)
This is the new normal,” Duncan said. Rhee, who oversaw the implementation of the IMPACT system, stressed the need to consult with teachers and to weigh their input when deciding how to use these data systems. Bredesen warned that teachers and the ...

Pakistan: US Military Trainers Will Be Allowed Back, But Not Drones ...
By Jason Ditz
Pakistani officials have recently indicated that negotiations are ongoing to define a new “normal” for relations with the US, and it seems today's comments further indicate this won't involve embracing CIA “on the ground” operations as they ...
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Heightened Volatility: The New Normal? - Yahoo! Finance
From Yahoo! Finance: It's not your imagination: The stock market is indeed bumpier than normal. The U.S. economy can't find its footing, and every piece of bad ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../heightened-volatility-normal-13423180...

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