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35236 recruiting disgruntled dot.com'ers -- rank: 1000

AtNewYork daily - July 10, 2000 *Latest Recruiting Target: Disgruntled "Dot-Commers" One Internet company's trouble worthless stock options could be another competitor's recruiting opportunity. At least, that's some of the thinking behind a recruiting campaign that the folks at Siegelgale, the brand and business strategy consulting firm, recently launched on the streets of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Aimed at some Web shops whose staff are holding stock options that are now under wat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 13:13:12 PDT 2000

35237 Heather Boushey on Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >So should people put in advance orders at B&N and Borders too, and >then cancel later? No - orders are orders. They total 'em up, regardless of source, and say "we've got *n* advance orders so let's print *an* copies. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 13:10:14 PDT 2000

35238 service productivity -- rank: 1000

Just spoke with the guy who's responsible for those service sector productivity figures. Almost all the big numbers come from small sectors, and almost all the gains are attributable to output increases, and not some heroic feats of productivity. In other words, I asked the guy, "You mean one salesperson can sell 2 TVs about as easily as 1?," he said yes, that was it. Or one photographer can do 20 portraits instead of 17, with a bit less time for latte breaks. The size of the industry ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 12:40:47 PDT 2000

35239 a new motto -- rank: 1000

From Sam Smith's Progressive Review, back after a longish hiatus: >Even the politics [in Italy] can be pretty interesting. For example, >I found this on a wall in Florence: > >"L'economia in culo a gli economisti." > >Roughly translated, I was told, this means: "Put the economy up the >ass of the economists."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 12:25:57 PDT 2000

35240 Measuring Productivity in a Service Economy -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY IN A SERVICE ECONOMY >Much of the credit for the United States' long-running economic boom has >been granted to the productivity-boosting effects of high-technology. But >technology has been seen as primarily a boon to manufacturing businesses. >The fast-growing service sector, on the other hand, has been slow to improve >productivity by adopting technology. That has led some critics to contend >that the so-called "New Economy," ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 12:12:01 PDT 2000

35241 Measuring Productivity in a Service Economy -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY IN A SERVICE ECONOMY >Much of the credit for the United States' long-running economic boom has >been granted to the productivity-boosting effects of high-technology. But >technology has been seen as primarily a boon to manufacturing businesses. >The fast-growing service sector, on the other hand, has been slow to improve >productivity by adopting technology. That has led some critics to contend >that the so-called "New Economy," ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 11:43:23 PDT 2000

35242 Heather Boushey on Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Done... > >How do advance orders via Amazon affect publishing-industry >decisions about such things as first print runs and desire to spend >money pushing books through the pipeline? I can only speak from watching things at Verso, but Verso is distributed by Norton, a real big publisher, so the experience is probably representative. All bookstores submit advance orders based on catalog announcements and the work of the field sales force. Amazon.com is big, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 11:49:11 PDT 2000

35243 Fwd: What if the Republicans were ousted from control of Congress? -- rank: 1000

Nathan, you advising the CPUSA? - Doug >Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:14:10 -0400 >From: John Bachtell <jbachtell at cpusa.org> >Subject: What if the Republicans were ousted from control of Congress? > >What if the Republicans were ousted from control of Congress? > >SENATE (pro-labor voting records) > >Committee chair Republicans OUT Democrats IN >Majority Leader Trent Lott (10%) Tom >Daschle (84%) >Judiciary Orrin Hatch (11%) Pat Leahy (86%) >Health, Ed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 11:38:42 PDT 2000

35244 Heather Boushey on Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Heather Boushey made an assertion I found stunning (but which is almost >certainly correct if her past carefulness is anything to go by) on Doug's >show last Thursday: that from the late 80's to the late 90's, the wages of >all workers in New York except for the top 10% fell. > >And she also said a bunch of other interesting things in the same vein. >And I was wondering where she's written this stuff up. Is it in the URPE >reader she just edited pe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 11:17:55 PDT 2000

35245 A 'true" Christian is Non-denominational (was Re: "Christian") -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Anybody on the list read, "The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and >in Modern Oblivion, " by Leo Steinberg. ??? Kicked up quite a storm when >originally published in the 80's. Is that the one that argued that JC had an erection under his loincloth? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 10:34:08 PDT 2000

35246 the price elasticity of marijuana consumption among youth -- rank: 1000

NBER "Digest", July 2000 National Bureau of Economic Research [...] Other issues are available at http://www.nber.org/digest (1) MARIJUANA PRICES AND USE "Changes in the price of marijuana contributed significantly to the trends in marijuana use between 1982 and 1998, especially to the reduction in usage that occurred from 1982 to 1992." Marijuana is the illicit drug most commonly used by adolescents, and it has been for at least 25 years. Research shows a significant correla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 10:33:20 PDT 2000

35247 America, the harlot, to be destroyed -- rank: 1000

Wow, this guy makes Mark Jones sound like Pangloss: <http://www.demonbuster.com/america.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 9 18:33:08 PDT 2000

35248 an awl through the ear -- rank: 1000

frances bolton wrote: > > If you admit that you are a slave of Christ, >> purchased and owned by Him, bound by His law, and >> committed to His discipleship for life... > >That's kind of sexy/nasty, in the same way those >bloody naked Jesuses are. mkes me wonder about the >roots and strange pleasures of christian self-denial >and focus on sinfulness. I was, um, impressed by this too, and did a google search for "slave of christ." After ignoring &quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 9 18:26:00 PDT 2000

35249 religious crackpots in public life -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i'm sorry what is this? did i miss some announcement about a >moratorium on z---k and l---n? i know i've not been reading so i >take it i missed the grand announcement. There was no announcement; Ken is apparently feeling persecuted. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 9 17:53:20 PDT 2000

35250 be there or be square -- rank: 1000

RETHINKING MARXISM announces its fourth International Gala Conference MARXISM 2000 21-24 September (Thursday-Sunday) 2000 University of Massachusetts at Amherst JOIN WITH Robert Albritton, Jack Amariglio, Giovanni Arrighi, Enid Arvidson, Margot Backus, Drucilla Barker, Ursula Biemann, Carole Biewener, Shannon Bell, John Beverley, Jacques Bidet, Roland Boer, Derek Boothman, Paul Burkett, Joseph Buttigieg, Antonio Callari, John Cammett, S. Charusheela, Stephen Cullenberg, Jamie Owen Daniel, Angela ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 9 17:04:09 PDT 2000