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hopes/dooms du jour, January 1-30, 2004
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vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
TIMEsizing consciousness in the news = strategic glimmers ignored since Pearl Harbor:
• Hollister CA considers 4-day workweeks & jobsharing to avoid layoffs
• America's malls in trouble as consumers juggle ever greater demands on their time
• timesizing Nucor steel in profit while other steelmakers (like Stelco today) go bust
• IG Metall faces hard fight over work hours
+ random glimmers of intelligence, in Wall Street Journal (j) or NY Times (t):
• Bush raises price of Medicare bill 33% - Dems & conservative Republicans vindicated (t.A15)
• wake-up call - GOP revolt over runaway spending (j.A12) - deficit jeopardizes Bush (j.A1)
• the cheaper the better - in last 4 Super Bowls, team with lower-paid quarterback won - maybe because cheaper QBs freed up pay for other players (j.W4) - & what guy who's making $25m is going to listen to a coach making 2m, asks Peter Gent (NPR Boston 9:50am 1/31)
• Argentina plays chicken with IMF - Kirchner acts like he calls the shots (j.A13) - & he does

vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
TIMEsizing consciousness in the news = strategic glimmers ignored since Pearl Harbor:
• markets treat labor as just another commodity - if in surplus, wages sink,
  & take consumer markets and the whole economy down with them - unless we timesize
• Tampa police get rapped for overwork - 75 hour weeks...
• big German union still hemorrhaging political clout on higher wages instead of shorter hours
• Strategic Coach reminds entrepreneurs it's about working smart, not long - suggests Free Days
+ random glimmer of intelligence, in Wall Street Journal (j) or NY Times (t):
• let's outsource professors who defend outsourcing (j.A19)

    1/28/2004 wed’s index to top US papers
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  • headline from hell(tm) from Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • Alan Greenspan's duty = voice his worries now that CBO testifies taxcut&spend GOP raises deficit ($477B this year) $100B over last year to 4.2% GDP = economic malpractice (t.page A24)
  • 3 DOWNsizings, totaling 10,170 lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • 6% workforce cut (6000 jobs lost) as Kraft Foods trims fat (& markets), instead of just trimming its workweek 6% (29 minutes a day for everyone, including top executives), re-investing overtime savings in overtime-targeted training&hiring and keeping everyone working & buying at least 94% as much food as before (j.B2, t.C3)
    • 3400 planned cuts (40%) as Citigroup announces more layoffs at former Sears unit (t.C3)
    • 770 jobcuts (5%, 640+130) as Steelcase office furniture closes 2 plants (t.C3)
  • 1 economy-level bankruptcy story reported in WSJ (j) &/or NYT (t): 
    • worldwatch - a record number of Japanese declared personal bankruptcy in Jan-Nov/2003 with a tougher economy & easier regulations: 220,695 = a tenfold increase since 1991 (j.A15)
  • 1 work-linked suicide: Minn. lottery chief died in apparent suicide day after meeting auditors (j.A1)
  • 2 PUFFsizing items = makework rampant creating ?? ‘jobs’:
    • outsourcing is good for America, if you like inefficiency of switching from huge do-it-all plants like Ford/River Rouge to getting parts from vast array of domestic & foreign suppliers (j.A16)
    • S.Korea spent $1.7B in public funds last year on restructuring financial sector (j.A15)
vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
TIMEsizing consciousness in the news = strategic glimmers ignored since Pearl Harbor:
• Australia creeps ahead on working hours but mainly only moving around same number of hours & tying options to reproduction in age of overpopulation
• meanwhile, Germany appears to be throwing away its lead on the shorter-hour worksharing route to maximizing its domestic consumer base
• and S.Korea's high youth unemployment bolster the need for the worksharing of their new 40-hour workweek & maybe even adjust it lower
+ random glimmers, in Wall Street Journal (j) or NY Times (t):
• 2 UPsizings - ?? jobs as Calif. & federal officials move on plans for $37B 700-mile high-speed rail system (t.A19) & • as Reliance Group plans in India world's largest ($2.2B) gas-run powerplant (t.W1)

1/27/2004 tuesday’s index to top US papers
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  • 12 headlines from hell(tm) from the Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • fiscal 2004 deficit estimate is basically unchanged at $477 billion, CBO said (j.A1)
    • long-term deficit expected to widen (j.A2), and 10 more hell hound headers
  • 1 more bank takeover story = appetizer for DOWNsizing:
    • Sovereign Bancorp (S&L) to gulp Seacoast Financial of New Bedford MA for $1.1B (j.C5, t.C4)
  • 1 apologia pro takeovers:
    • some 'dinosaur' mergers still alive & thriving: Citigroup, Pfizer, GE (j.A15) - but in minority
  • 9 general DOWNsizing stories reported in Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • 'recovery' has had weaker job creation than any recovery since World War II (t.C1)
    • education is no protection - white collar jobs are headed abroad (t.A27);   plus 7 other downers
  • 2 general PUFFsizing items = makework rampant creating ?? ‘jobs’: • big banks, big bailouts (j.A14)
    • ahead of the tape - Wall Street's baloney has a first name: R-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-I-N-G  (j.C1) vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness in the news = strategic glimmers ignored since Pearl Harbor:
    • more discussion of free time by WSJ - catching on?
    • Multiplastics of S.C. switched to four-day workweek & cut hours to avoid layoffs
    • world's largest private software company, SAS, has 7-hour workday
    • 5.1%, or 230,000, of salaried South Koreans in their 20s, including self-employed,
       average fewer than 27 working hours a week
    + random glimmers, in Wall Street Journal (j) or New York Times (t):
    • general malaise - Dems want to get rid of Bush more than Repubs want to keep him (j.A14)
    • on again, off again: corporate America & Dems split -
       'forget Saddam, real enemy is Halliburton' (j.A4)
    • US District Judge Audrey Collins rules parts of 'Patriot' Act curtail free speech (j.A6)
    • tobacco industry gets bad news in 2 lawsuits (j.D12)
    • our border brigades - how we've tried & tried to stop illegal immigrants (j.A14) -
       but without prosecuting their U.S. employers
    • Brazil won't renew accord with IMF (j.A12) = cutting the puppetstrings to hovering USA

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  • weekend headlines from hell (tm)  • bird flu   • bad loans,   & 12 other doozies  
  • 1 bank merger = appetizers for DOWNsizing: • Union Planters & Regions Financial in $5.9B deal (1/24 t.B4)
  • 2 DOWNsizings, totaling 150 + ?? lost jobs cited in Wall Street Journal (j) &/or NY Times (t):
    •   150 jobcuts as United Airlines trims Miami schedule (1/24 t.B4, 1/26 j.A11)
    •   unspecified cuts as Bottom Line cabaret in Greenwich Village closes (1/24 t.A14)
  • 9 general DOWNsizing stories in WSJ &/or NYT or Boston Globe:
    •   'recovery' has weaker job creation than any recovery since World War II  
    •   education is no protection - white collar jobs heading abroad,   plus other 7 stories
  • 1 story of eroding retirement cited in WSJ (j) or NYT (t): • 3 Bush advisors voice pension fears (1/26 j.A2)
  • 1 prison item: • top Ill. court upholds Gov.Ryan's commutation of all deathrow inmates (1/24 t.A8)
  • work-linked suicide: • Parmalat executive, Alessandro Bassi, early 40s, jumps off bridge in Italy (1/24 t.B3)
  • 8 PUFFsizings = makework rampant involving ?? 'jobs' reported in WSJ &/or NYT:
    •   omnibus spending bill has $10.7B in 7931 earmarked 'sweetheart projects', 15 per Congressman
    •   scale of US military spending faces GAO questions - $4B/mon for Iraqis & $1B/mon for Afghans,
         & 6 more costly-caustics
    vs.  hope du jourtm
    TIMEsizing = strategic hope - the only thing we haven't tried lately:
    • WSJ wakes up to erosion of most basic freedom = free time - dropped from 26 to 19 hrs/wk as median workweek jumped from 41 to 49, 1973-2003
    • Florida judge won't give class-action status to unpaid-overtime suit vs. Wal-Mart cuz doesn't have resources to calculate damages?! - plus 3 other stories
    weekend roll-up -
    5 issues/wk - wk's avg homepage hits/issue: 67
    doom of the week    tm     from the WSJ & the NYT:
    • 16 DOWNsizings, over 19,644 jobcuts   • 4 bankruptcies  
    • 2 eroding-retirement stories   • 2 prison stories   • 1 work-linked suicide story
    vs.  hope of the weektm from the WSJ & the NYT:
    • 13 TIMEsizing items (?? new or saved jobs)  • 0 UPsizing + • 14 makework items (?? new 'jobs')
    {{ ytd: 77 timsizngs (600+ new or sav'd jobs) + 3 upsizngs (?? new jobs) + 37 makwrk (1503+ 'jobs') =
    total: 2103 = 2.8% of cuts VERSUS 56 downsizgs (76,458+ cuts) + 15 bankrupt ($??+) +2 homelessness +6 prison +2 suicid }}

    1/23/2004 friday’s index to top US papers
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  • headlines from hell(tm) from the Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • ahead of tape, rebound buzz belied by abnormally low mfg capacity usage (75%) & biz loans (j.C1), or 'about 74%', well below avg of 1972-2002 (1/26 j.A2)
    • ex-Enron CFO indicted on 6 felony wraps, belies next headline: CEOs say 'too much regulation' (t.C1)
    • union membership dropped 0.2 to 12.9% of all workers last yr, 0.4 to 8.2% in private sector (j.A14)
    • where food comes from is unlabeled & unknown thanks to undebated doctoring of spending bill (t.A24)
  • 2 takeover stories = appetizers for DOWNsizing: • merger from hell - TW paid too much for AOL (j.W5)
    • outlook for Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft dims as Justice Dept. takes aim (j.A12)
  • 6 DOWNsizings, totaling 2130 +?? lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • 1020 jobcuts (950+70) as Wilsons the Leather Experts close 100+28 stores (t.C4)
    • 475 cuts as J.C. Penney closes Austin, Tex. telemarketing center (yay! - t.C4)
    • 395 as Furniture Brands International closes 2 N.Carolina plants (t.C4)
    • 240 as Motorola closes cellphone plant in Florida (t.C4)
    • unspecified cuts as bankrupt (1/14) Factory 2-U closes 44 of its 239 southwest US stores (t.C4)
    and • as Aurora Foods closes its HQ in St. Louis (t.C4)
  • 5 general DOWNsizing stories reported in Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • US economy growing, layoffs slower, but not much new hiring (j.A2)
    • jobless claims show unexpected drop, OK dip, OK tick (1000/342000 = 0.0029), OK forget it (t.C2)
    • the other America - Bush whistles past the unemployment lines (t.A25)
    • offices vacancies are sky-high; so why no crisis? (cuz they say so on page one?! - j.A1)
    • US wage inequality has begun widening again, due to persistent unemployment amid 'recovery' (j.A1)
  • 1 bankruptcy mentioned in WSJ (j) &/or NYT (t): • WLP Estate fka Wellington Leisure Products (j.C15)
  • 1 eroding retirement story: • Senate debates pensions, 'Can we make it easier to stiff retirees?' (j.A4)
  • 3 PUFFsizings = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified ‘jobs’:
    • pResident proposes $30B for homeland security - indicates re-election strategy (j.A9, t.A19)
    • Halliburton tells Pentagon that workers took Iraq-deal kickbacks (j.A1)
    • sweet & lowdown on how sugar lobby is blocking fight against obesity (t.A25) vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness in the news = strategic glimmers ignored since Pearl Harbor:
    • Hilton mounts leisure-time advocacy initiative 
    • Westward Industries cuts hours to trim layoffs
    • European Parliament's Employment & Social Affairs Committee wants end UK's long hours
    • Isle of Guernsey survey: 60% of mfg & non-financial service jobholders exceed 40 hrs/wk

    1/22/2004 thurs’ index to top US papers
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  • headlines from hell(tm) from the Wall St. Journal (j) &/or N.Y. Times (t):
    • Bush budget pledge to hold down spending increases requires creative accounting (j.A4)
    • growing global unease - sustainable recovery built on ballooning US deficits??? (j.A10)
    • Bush offers menu of skimpy & warmed-over healthcare proposals (t.A24) but... • lotsa stuff for gun lobby - gun dealers can wipe ID-check records after just 24 hours - THIS is homeland security? (t.A24) - correction: FBI must wipe them (1/24 t.A28)
    • Bush backs food-labeling delay, never mind mad cow = more 'homeland security'? (t.A14)
    • meanwhile, it's payback time against US travelers targeted by countries’ fees, red tape, visa rules (j.D1) = Bush's autistic foreign policy backfires again   (that's IT: Bush & neo-cons are autistic!)
  • 1 bank takeover = appetizer for DOWNsizing:
    • South Financial Group to buy CNB Florida Bancshares for $157m (t.C4)
  • 5 DOWNsizings, totaling 15,225 lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • 21% workforce cut (15000 jobs lost - there goes Rochester! - 'Tech blessing becomes Rochester's curse' (1/23 j.A8) as Kodak cuts costs (& markets) in response to digital push, instead of just trimming its workweek 21% (to five 6hr20min days for everyone, including top executives), re-investing overtime savings in overtime-targeted training&hiring and keeping everyone working, earning, & buying at least 79% as much camera gear as before (j.A1)
    • 125 jobcuts as Rogers Corp. computer & wireless gear moves jobs from Conn. to China (t.C4)
    • 100 cuts as Dutch grocer Royal Ahold closes US corporate retail HQ in Va. (t.W1)
    • unspecified cuts as Smith & Wesson moves HQ from Ariz. to Mass. (t.C4) & as • Johnson Controls consolidates plants in Europe (j.C6)
  • 1 liquidation cited in WSJ (j) &/or NYT (t): 
    • Penn Financial Group Inc., under SIPA, 15 USC, §78aaa ff. (j.B7) vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • Minneapolis Star Tribune features a good indictment of Bush 'overtime grab'
    • Miami Herald connects dots from shorter hours to better productivity
    + random glimmers of hope in Wall Street Journal (WSJ) or NY Times (NYT):
    • US prosecutors work their way up Enron hierarchy toward Lay & Skilling - about time! (j.B5)
    • Bush's profligate spending criticized by conservative Republicans including 40 GOP reps, Heritage Foundation, Club for Growth, WSJ editorial page (t.A1)
    • ex-CIA aides press for inquiry by Congress over leak of undercover name (t.A1)
    • 6-day anti-Davos’ Bombay forum is anti-war, draws 80,000 attendees from 100 lands (t.A6)
    • Schering & Akzo Nobel launch joint trials in quest for elusive male contraceptive pill (j.D2)

    1/21/2004 wed’s index to top US papers
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  • 7 headlines from hell(tm) from the Wall St. Journal (j) &/or N.Y. Times (t):
    • on & on re Dean's guttural warcry, nothing re issues = slow news day? (t.A20)
    • no foolproof way seen to contain franken genes (t.A10 // j.A1)
    • economic talks draw elite to Davos but have no salient issue (except bottlenecking elistism) (t.A5)
    • another jobless GDP jump = China's 9.1%, so GDP irrelevant except as vibrator for investors (j.A1)
    • US dollar down again with rise of pastel Kerry candidacy & Bush hot air (j.C4, J.A1)
    • S.Korea gets into consumer debt 'solution' to flaccid consumer markets (j.A11)
    • big lesson from Iowa: it's still the economy (ie: jobs), stupid (j.A1)
  • 2 general DOWNsizing stories reported in Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • job gains have been weak, but fewer jobless are receiving benefits - but fewer are eligible - & service-sector execs say they've got new jobs opening up - yeah, McJobs (t.C1)
    • dragged down by underperforming stores, America's moribund malls are calling on consultants (j.A1)
  • 1 prison item:
    • Ala. ends unique segregation of inmates with HIV from educational & vocational programs (t.A21)
  • 2 PUFFsizings = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified ‘jobs’:
    • Canadian carparts maker Magna owes success to ability to get government backing (t.C4)
    • Cambodian girls drift into brothel slavery (t.A29) & buying 1-2 girls' freedom no solution (t.A28) vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • Ontario gov't wants check with employers & employees about ending previous govt's allowance of up to 60-hour workweek - shades of Japan 3 years ago

    1/20/2004 tuesday’s index to top US papers
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  • 2 headlines from hell(tm) from the Wall St. Journal (j) &/or N.Y. Times (t):
    • the Taliban creep back in Afghanistan (t.A20)
    • Bush is going for broke, busting the budget to promise us the moon, & Mars as well - and his forced enlistment extensions for our National Guard & Reserve constitute an unlegislated draft (t.A21)
  • 2-in-1 item on bank takeovers = appetizers for DOWNsizing:
    • bigger isn't better for U.S. banks - so ... small is beautiful after all? (t.A20)
  • 3 DOWNsizings, totaling 2264 lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • 7% workforce cut (1500 jobs lost) as Alitalia cuts costs (& markets), instead of just trimming its workweek 7% (35 minutes a day for everyone, including top executives), re-investing overtime savings in overtime-targeted training&hiring and keeping everyone together working, earning, confident & spending at least 93% as much as before (t.A5)  
    • 625 jobs lost as 84-yr-old Archibald Candy Corp. shuts down in Chicago (t.C4)  
    • 19 net layoffs (139 cuts -120 adds) as Lydall air filters closes Ohio plant (t.C4)
  • 1 general DOWNsizing story reported in Wall Street Journal (j) &/or New York Times (t):
    • Hong Kong unemployment eases 0.2% for Oct-Dec from Sep-Nov, but still high at 7.3% (t.C9)
  • 2 new (to us) bankruptcies cited in WSJ (j) &/or NYT (t): 
    • 84-yr-old Archibald Candy Corp. filed bankruptcy in 2002 (t.C4)
    • Redwood Empire Restaurants & Levey Properties in Ch.11 (j.B4)    
  • 2 general bankruptcy stories reported in WSJ (j) &/or NYT (t): 
    • Frank Carone's $27m multiple fraud cases show gaps in US bankruptcy system oversight (j.C1)
    • Japan: bankruptcies decline 14.5% to 16,624 in 2003 from 2002, first decline in 4 years (t.C9)
  • 1 PUFFsizing = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified ‘jobs’:
    • Bush to bribe private HMOs extra 10.6% to enter Medicare mkt & boost benefits for seniors (t.A1) vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • WSJ admits fall in number of hours worked in Dec. is 'potentially aberrant'
    • UPI reporter wakes up to the deeper disempowerment layers of workaholism
    • Harvard law prof backs him up
    • echoes from England
    + random glimmer of hope in Wall Street Journal (WSJ) or NY Times (NYT):
    • anti-Davos’ globalization World Social Forum held in financial capital, Bombay (t.A7)

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    • 2 headlines from hell (tm)  • falling US$ makes joke of US stock 'recovery' relative to euro
      • eroding honesty in America belies Republican rhetoric
    • 5 DOWNsizings, totaling 7269 lost jobs cited in Wall Street Journal (J) &/or NY Times (T): • 2700 offshores by Electrolux (1/19 WSJ, B8)   • 1700 more cuts by MCI (1/19 WSJ, A1,B4)   • 1600 Japan cuts by Seiyu (1/19 WSJ, B4)  
      • 900 UK cuts by Boots (1/19 WSJ, B4)   • 369 by Federated Dept. Stores (1/17 T.B4, 1/19 J.B4)
    • 6 general DOWNsizing tales in WSJ (J) &/or NYT (T): • current tech 'recovery' is spotty (1/19 BG.F1)
      • no wonder, when even IBM now wants to save $168m/yr by offshoring 1000s of jobs - US programmer $56/hr, Chinese $12.50/hr (1/19 J.A1) - ergo 'recovery' still jobless (see our developing solution, 1/29/2004)
      • backlash looms as white-collar jobs leave US - last year 8 states mulled ending biz with foreign workers (1/19 Boston Globe.A3)
      • Bush's big marriage sell blows $1.5B on counseling etc. while ignoring joblessness (1/17 T.A30)
      • deadbeat firms in China owe backpay to tens of millions of migrant workers (1/19 WSJ, A1)
      • France closes 3rd industrial plant in Pas-de-Calais after 10 die of Legionnaires' disease (1/19 WSJ, A1)
    • 1 story of eroding retirement cited in Boston Globe:
      • at least 45,000 quit AARP over its support of Bush Medi‘care’ law (1/17 BG, A2)
    • 3 PUFFsizings = makework rampant involving ?? 'jobs' reported in WSJ & BG (Boston Globe):
      • US inquiry deepens into accusations vs. Halliburton unit KBR of fuel overcharges (1/17 BG, D1)
      • for Cheney-tied Halliburton, Uncle Sam brings steady profits (1/19 WSJ, A1)
      • Medicare bill gives additional $500m to private HMOs/insurance plans this year (1/19 WSJ, B4)
      vs.  hope du jourtm
      TIMEsizing = strategic hope - the only thing we haven't tried lately:
      • new gov't set to end old govt's raising of workweek cap to 60 hrs
      • ruling party in Greece mulls 35-hr workweek
      • Ohio county cuts hours to avoid cutting jobs, plus 4 other stories
      + random hope: • 1 UPsizing, ?? jobs as Home Depot plans 175 stores (1/19 WSJ, B4)
      weekend roll-up -
      5 issues/wk - wk's avg homepage hits/issue: 120
      doom of the week      tm       from the WSJ & the NYT:
      • 21 DOWNsizings, over 47,032 jobcuts   • 1 homelessness story 
      • 8 bankruptcies   • 5 eroding-retirement stories   • 1 prison story   • 1 work-linked suicide story
      vs.  hope of the weektm from the WSJ & the NYT:
      • 24 TIMEsizing items (600+ jobs saved)  • 1 UPsizing + • 14 makework items (1500+ prolonged 'jobs')
      {{ ytd: 64 timsizngs (600+ new or sav'd jobs) + 3 upsizngs (?? new jobs) + 23 makwrk (1503+ 'jobs') =
      total: 2103 = 3.7% of cuts VERSUS 40 downsizgs (56,814+ cuts) + 11 bankrupt ($??+) +2 homelessness +4 prison +1 suicid }}

    1/16/2004 friday’s index to top US papers
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  • 3 headlines from hell(tm) from the Wall St. Journal (J) &/or N.Y. Times (T): • loopholes develop in state spending limits - 'The limits don't serve any compelling purpose,' says FEC commissioner (J.A4)
    • Agriculture Dept. lets slaughterhouses choose which cattle to test for mad-cow disease (J.A1)
    • Fed doesn't bother tracking the variable that caused Great Depression, distribution of wealth (J.A1)
  • 1 takeover story = appetizer for DOWNsizing: • for 1st time, Japan firms face hostile takeovers (T.C5)
  • 4 DOWNsizings, totaling 3137 lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal (J) &/or New York Times (T):
    • 1% workforce cut (1500 jobs lost, T.C4) as Delhaize Group, Belgian retailer that's 5th-largest US supermarket operator, closes or sells 34 stores in its Kash n' Karry chain, instead of just trimming its workweek 1% (5 minutes a day for everyone, including top executives), re-investing overtime savings in overtime-targeted training&hiring and keeping everyone together working, earning, confident & spending at least 99% as much as before
    • 800 jobcuts (24%) by Weirton Steel, W.Va. (T.C4)     • 37 (10%) by WCI Steel, Ohio (T.C4)
    • 800 cuts by Samsung Electronics, S.Korea (T.W1)
  • 2 general DOWNsizing stories reported in Wall Street Journal &/or New York Times:
    • manufacturers optimistic, though not about job creation (T.C2)
    • Bush, in reversal, champions program to help manufacturers - where the jobs aren't (J.A2)
    • ahead of tape - all economic indicators appear harmonious, except for monthly jobs report (J.C1)
  • 3 bankruptcies reported in WSJ &/or NYT:  • WCI Steel, last Sept. (T.C4)  
    • Navigator Gas Transport, et al...Ch.11 (J.C13)     • ATX Communications (T.C9)
  • 2 eroding retirement stories: • WCI Steel to cut jobs & reduce 401k contributions (T.C4)
    • PBGC, US insurer of pensions, says its deficit has soared from 3.6 to $11.2B in 1 year (T.C1)
  • 1 prison item: • NY City detains low-level inmates at Rikers at cost of over $90,000/person/yr (T.A17)
  • 3 PUFFsizings = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified ‘jobs’:
    • Bush, in reversal, champions program to help manufacturers (J.A2) - $40m for 'Manufacturing Extension Partnership' he once targeted for elimination
    • question on Halliburton contract (T.A14) - chose pricey gas supplier for Iraq in just 1 day after mulling only 3 bids
    • injuries caused by accidents cost US economy $117B a year (J.A1), which goes right into the GDP vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • WSJ admits fall in number of hours worked in Dec. is 'potentially aberrant'
    • Swiss Employers Assoc. recommends job sharing
    • now Taiwan vies for booby prize for longest working hours
    • state rep in N.H. proposes benefits for part-timers (like Netherlands)

    1/15/2004 thursday’s headlines from helltm
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  • 1 omen: • self-employed blamed for tax gap - taxpayer 'advocate' proposes contractor withholding
  • 2 takeover stories = appetizers for DOWNsizing: • J.P. Morgan Chase to buy Bank One for $58B
    • big mergers like this have long history of failure & troubles
  • 1 DOWNsizing, totaling 1421 lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal &/or New York Times:
    • 1421 jobcuts as US Air closes Allegheny 'Agony' Airlines
  • 1 bankruptcy reported in WSJ &/or NYT:  • KB Toys files for Chap.11
  • 2 eroding retirement stories: • retirees face pinch - costs surging, many firms halt programs
    • United & Delta increase pressure on employees for concessions
  • work-linked suicide: • 21 US military suicides in Iraq last year (of course, whole quagmire is military suicide)
  • 2 PUFFsizings = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified ‘jobs’:
    • now Bush regime via FCC wants stronger obscenity curbs
    • French gov't orchestrated bailout of Alstom, Paris transport & power-engineering firm, last summer vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • UK's Asda offers job-sharing
    • WSJ doesn't want you to pass workaholism on to your children
    • UK consulting firms whine about EU's 48-hour workweek cap
    • US unions complain re new overtime law
    • down-under employers face demands to ease required work hours

    1/14/2004  wed’s headlines from helltm
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  • 3 warnings:
    • Boston Globe reader flags editorial linking overpopulation & war
    • Journal reader restores commonsense definition of conservative (law-abiding) relative to illegal aliens
    • second Globe reader holds up mirror to those screeching against criticism of Bush
  • 7 DOWNsizings, totaling 34,611 +?? lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal &/or New York Times:
    • 32,000 jobcuts by German military
    • 1300 cuts by Bake-Line Group
    • 1000 by Union Pacific RR
    • 217 by Rayovac
    • 94 by Franklin Electric
    • unspecified cuts by Hewlett-Packard and • SureBeam
  • 3 bankruptcies reported in WSJ &/or NYT:  • Ch.11 filed by TwinLab and • Factory 2-U
    • Ch.7 filed by Bake-Line
  • 5 PUFFsizings = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified ‘jobs’:
    • Bush now wants to boost deficit with 5% more to NASA for Mars, never mind healthcare on Earth
    • Bush wants $1.5B to promote (hetero) marriage in overpopulated world
    • Bush condescends to let Canada bid for makework in Iraq
    • "People's" Republic of China gives $41B to its wealthiest bankers
    • new Malaysian PM vows end to favoritism in gov't contracts - ri-i-ight vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • job sharing in Ireland
    • America's short-sighted work ethic mistakes absenteeism (taking sick day) for sloth &
      'presenteeism' (face time) for productivity
    • Melrose MA highschoolers in training for workaholism
    • Dollar General stores loses lawsuit to 90-hr/wk 'exempt' manager

    1/13/2004  tuesday’s headlines from helltm
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  • 2 general omens:
    • beginning of end of American Consumer Miracle - retail stocks waning, Asian exporters worrying
    • record numbers of corporate account restatements  
  • 4 DOWNsizings, totaling 594 +?? lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal or New York Times:
    • 258 jobcuts by Disney
    • 205 by InterMet
    • 131 by Graphic Packaging
    • unspecified cuts by SureBeam
  • 1 bankruptcy reported in WSJ &/or NYT:  • SureBeam in Chap. 7
  • 1 prison item: • inmates in Greenland roam free, to victims' chagrin
  • 1 PUFFsizing = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified 'jobs':
    • Pentagon extends Iraq tours for 1,500 vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • South Korea's into job-sharing for job creation
    • retirement tips from Montreal - such as easing in with reduced workweeks
    • now Wal-Mart has been overworking minors & working them during school hours
    • CEOs as job killers via offshoring & downsizing, not timesizing
    + random glimmers in Wall Street Journal (WSJ) or NY Times (NYT):
    • New Mexico is phasing out some sales taxes

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  • general headlines from hell (tm)  • charities favor wealthiest nonprofits, so no real balancing occurs
    • liberals don't have as clear an agenda as conservatives, so lose out on talk radio
  • 5 DOWNsizings, totaling 2300 lost jobs cited in WSJ &/or NYT: • 975 jobcuts by WestPoint Stevens
    • 7% workforce cut (700 jobs lost) as Cargill meatpackers cripples its future to improve earnings, instead of just trimming its workweek 7% (15 minutes a day for everyone, including top executives), re-investing overtime savings in overtime-targeted training&hiring and keeping everyone together working, earning, confident & buying at least 93% as many paper products as usual    
    • 315 cuts by Smurfit-Stone   • 270 by Swift   • 40 by Tyson Foods
  • 1 bankruptcy reported in Wall Street Journal &/or New York Times: • Toscorp Inc. et al. vs.  hope du jourtm
    TIMEsizing = strategic hope - the only thing we haven't tried lately:
    • jobsharing at Ford plant in Oakville ONT has saved jobs
    • South Korea has not reduced workweek enough to reduce income gap
    • plus 4 stories on work/life balance in Britain
    weekend roll-up -
    5 issues/wk - wk's avg homepage hits/issue: 55
    doom of the week    tm     from the WSJ & the NYT:
    • 16 DOWNsizings, over 9110 jobcuts   • 1 homelessness story 
    • 2 bankruptcies   • 8 eroding-retirement story   • 1 prison story  
    vs.  hope of the weektm from the WSJ & the NYT:
    • 26 TIMEsizing items  • 2 UPsizings (?? new jobs)  + clouded hope: • 6 makework items (?? new 'jobs')
    {{ ytd: 40 timsizngs (?? new or sav'd jobs) + 2 upsizngs (?? new jobs) + 9 makwrk (3+ 'jobs') =
    total: 3 = 0.03% of cuts VERSUS 19 dnsz (9782+ cuts) + 3 bkrp ($??+) +2 homlss +3 prisn +0 kills }}

    1/09/2004  friday’s headlines from helltm
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  • 3 general omens: • consumer debt in Nov. grew at half Oct. pace but still huge
    • late shoppers give retailers boost but based on small luxury sector & deep discounts elsewhere  
    • one Enron prosecution is moving slowly but Bush is still shielding & blocking
  • 1 overview of takeovers: • apparel industry grows consolidated & cut-throat
  • 3 DOWNsizings, totaling 685 +?? lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal or New York Times:
    • est. 500 jobcuts by Toshiba
    • 15% workforce cut (185 jobs lost) as Instinet e-broker splits operations & cuts office space, instead of just trimming its workweek 15% (to five 6¾-hour days for everyone, including top executives), re-investing overtime savings in overtime-targeted training&hiring and keeping everyone together working, earning, confident & investing at least 85% as much as before    
    • unspecified cuts by Matsushita Electric Industrial
  • 1 bankruptcy reported in WSJ &/or NYT:  • Piccadilly Cafeterias in Ch. 11
  • 3 eroding retirement stories: • study of Medicare HMOs found they aren't all that poor or efficient
    • some firms with many retirees could post big earnings thanks to acctg 'guidelines' for drug subsidies
    • federal pension agency protects retirement incomes of 44m Americans in 32,500 private defined-benefit pension plans = waaay over-extended
  • 1 item of 'disability news' -
    • disability rates are up 40-50% over past two decades, & obesity prime suspect after lack of jobs
  • 1 homelessness story: • 20,000 homeless people were put into permanent NYC shelters last year
  • 2 PUFFsizings = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified 'jobs':
    • no end to sex trade without global worksharing
    • US entangled in disputes in Iraq while Powell again admits no link to 9/11 vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • even in worksharing Germany, pension costs are being shifted to employees = all the more reason to rely on workweek, not worklife, fluctuation
    • Holcomb Tyson Fresh Meats' 10 US plants run on reduced 32-36 hour workweeks to avoid layoffs
    • Britain in general & • Scotland in particular spin sugarpill worktime 'regulation' as the real thing
    • The Economist mag spins EU's 48-hour workweek max as terrible burden for employers
    • shortened workweek (40 hrs) will be phased in at all work sites in S. Korea by 2011 - welcome to 1940 America, as US & UK go back to 44 hrs & above
    • spokesman in Dubai doesn't like that 40-hr workweek 'foist' upon insurance industry

    1/08/2004  thursday’s headlines from helltm
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  • 10 omens against the future: • mutual funds are replaying 1990s bubble
    • monopolies, like Microsoft, stifle innovation, as on browsers
    • quick to close its own borders vs. suspect beef, US in no position to ask others to lift bans vs. it
    • Bush plan for immigrant workers offers social-security benefits, including to some illegals
    • recent history of American poverty - starting up again
    • ban lifted on MCI bidding for US gov't contracts
    • Bush plans to ease 20-year-old rule prevents dumping of coal mining spoils in mountain streams
    • Bush reasserts right to declare its own citizens enemy combatants
    • eroding working-age skills are pulling CEOs & now NFL coaches out of retirement
    • scientists predict widespread extinction by global warming (possibly of us?)
  • 4 DOWNsizings, totaling 4500 +?? lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal or New York Times:
    • 4500 jobcuts by IRS
    • unspecified cuts by Boise Cascade  • Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea  • Monsanto
  • 3 eroding retirement stories: • study of Medicare HMOs found they aren't all that poor or efficient
    • some firms with many retirees could post big earnings thanks to acctg 'guidelines' for drug subsidies
    • federal pension agency protects retirement incomes of 44m Americans in 32,500 private defined-benefit pension plans = waaay over-extended
  • 1 PUFFsizing = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified 'jobs':
    • US withdrawal of weapon hunters from Iraq means war fiasco was pure makework vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • federal pension benefits chief quits to devote more time to his family
    • union official in Minn. nails conflict-of-interest in Labor Dept. memo on overtime
    • Deutsche Telekom proposes 10% hours & pay cut as it struggles back to profitable growth
    + random glimmers in Wall Street Journal (WSJ) or NY Times (NYT):
    • 1 UPsizing - unspecified new jobs as WalGreen plans new distribution center in S.C.
    • Bush's stumbling at least triggers discussion of immigration
    • op ed advises candidates to get religion out of politics

    1/07/2004  wed’s headlines from helltm
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  • 3 DOWNsizings, totaling 1314 +?? lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal or New York Times:
    • 1300 jobcuts by EarthLink
    • 14 by Baltimore Sun
    • unspecified cuts as Pentagon closes bases
  • eroding retirement: • Commerzbank to end pension contributions
  • 3 PUFFsizings = makework rampant creating or saving unspecified 'jobs':
    • Northrop, United & BAE to develop system to save commercial jets from shoulder-launched missiles
    • Bechtel unit nearly doubles its work in Iraq with additional for $1.82B
    • China announces new, $45B bailout of 2 big banks vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • Tyson continues reduced hours at beef plants to adjust to mad-cow scare in U.S.
    • young US doctors flood specialties that leave them some life of their own
    • Nottingham UK schools splits principalship between married couple
    • EU averages 39.3-hr workweek, UK 43.3...sleep deprivation
    • small NZ exporters reduce working hours to stay afloat as US dollar sinks
    + random glimmers in Wall Street Journal (WSJ) or NY Times (NYT):
    • 1 UPsizing - unspecified new jobs as Panama Canal needs spend billions to add or widen locks

    1/06/2004  tuesday’s headlines from helltm
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  • 1 general wake-up call: • Xmas 'boom'? - only for luxury goods, discount stores & heavily discounted autos - just like the Great Depression
  • 1 DOWNsizing, totaling 311 lost jobs reported in Wall Street Journal or New York Times:
    • 2% workforce cut (311 jobs lost) as Elder-Beerman follows takeover of Bon-Ton Stores with HQ overlap jobchop, instead of just trimming its workweek 2% (10 minutes a day for everyone, including top executives), re-investing overtime savings in overtime-targeted training&hiring and keeping everyone together working, earning, confident & shopping at least 98% as much as before    
    • and generally, NYT & WSJ debate free-trade's effect on jobs &   • practice of off-shoring jobs
  • eroding retirement: • Dems resume battle on Medicare bill
  • 1 prison item: • federal appeals court in California flipflops twice on forcing inmates to give
    blood sample for FBI's forensic database vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • motorist doesn't understand why gov't thinks letting truckers drive 11 hours straight instead of 10
      will improve safety - neither do we
    • women lawyers in Canada are pushing for shorter workweeks
    • WSJ goes over EU's opposition to UK's opt-out of EU's 48-hour workweek cap
    • EUPoliltix reports on EU unions' disappointment with EU's opt-out on ending UK's opt-out
    • employees at Ford's Land Rover unit in UK are using overtime ban & 37-hour workweek to
       pressure mgmt into giving them higher raise
    • Australian Labor Party wants to change casual workers to permanent part-time employees with
       benefits, as in Netherlands

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  • general headlines from hell (tm)  • US Senators & Congressmen have automated payraises for themselves every year without debate or publicity
  • 1 bank takeover = appetizers for DOWNsizing: • First Community Bankshares to buy PCB Bancorp
  • 1 DOWNsizing story reported in NYT &/or WSJ: • ?? cuts as BCE Emergis closes U.S. Health unit
  • 1 bankruptcy reported in WSJ &/or NYT:  • Black Sea & Baltic General Insurance
  • 1 prison item: • 75% of women inmates in Okla. could be safely released with savings of $20k each/year
  • 1 PUFFsizing = makework rampant: • Canada gov't is investigating complaint from wealthy Harrison McCain's food firm that US companies sell frozen pizzas with self-rising crust at illegally low prices vs.  hope du jourtm
    TIMEsizing = strategic hope - the only thing we haven't tried lately:
    • timesizing gains an ally in removing a great obstacle - Bill Ford calls for national healthcare
    • Brits have longest workhours in Europe - men work same hours as their fathers in 1940s & 50s
    • 1/3 of Brits aged 50-69 want to retire gradually by reducing working hours before full retirement
    weekend roll-up -
    5 issues/wk - wk's avg homepage hits/issue: 42
    doom of the week    tm     from the WSJ & the NYT:
    • 4 DOWNsizings, over 785 jobcuts   • 1 homelessness story 
    • 2 bankruptcies   • 1 eroding-retirement story   • 3 prison stories  
    vs.  hope of the weektm from the WSJ & the NYT:
    • 22 TIMEsizing items  + clouded hope: • 3 makework items (3+ new 'jobs')
    {{ ytd: 14 timsizngs (?? new or sav'd jobs) + 0 upsizngs (0 new jobs) + 3 makwrk (3+ 'jobs') =
    total: 3 = 0.4% of cuts VERSUS 3 dnsz (672+ cuts) + 1 bkrp ($??+) +1 homlss +2 prisn +0 kills }}

    1/02/2004  friday’s headlines from helltm
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  • 2 overviews of takeovers = appetizers for DOWNsizing:
    • mergers & acquisitions are moving again - & so will soon be downsizings
    • US firms sped up pace of takeovers in Europe - so expect also the reverse, & even less accountability
  • 3-in-1 homelessness story: • how can this be? - today? in America? - even though they're working? - even though many of them vote?
  • 1 prison item: • nationwide, nearly 2/3 of released inmates are re-arrested within 3 years & this has helped drive US prison population past 2m
  • 1 mega FAKEsizing = makework rampant: • many software firms are raising maintenance fees & trying to force clients into frequent upgrades = private-sector makework vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • British paper advises, skip post-holiday depression by making sure you take your breaks
       & leave the office on time   • plus 7 other stories

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  • 2 DOWNsizing stories, totaling 672 lost jobs reported in NYT (no WSJ today):
    • 552 jobcuts as US Airways shifts from timesizing to downsizing
    • 120 cuts as Rayovac closes last 65 Remington razor service stores
  • 1 FAKEsizing = makework rampant, involving 3 "jobs":
    • investigation of Conn. Gov. Rowland widens to include 3 patronage jobs he got for partners' kids vs.  glimmers of hope = headlines from heaven
    TIMEsizing consciousness on the newswires: = strategic hope ignored since Pearl Harbor -
    • US Airways delayed 552 layoffs for over a year by offering longtime employees unpaid leave
       till this Jan.15 to preserve junior employees' jobs
    • insurance industry in United Arab Emirates cuts from 6(?) to 5-day week, takes Thu-Fri as its
       new 2-day weekend
    • South Korea readies for cut from 44- to 40-hour, 5½- to 5-day workweek this year,
       big firms starting in July
    • Chirac is still shadowboxing with 'competitiveness' instead of implementing full-scale
       workweek adjustment vs. 9.6% unemployment (1 hour cut = 1% drop 1997-2001)

    2003 year-end roll-up - (fiscal- & half-year end)
    - our fifth year of news tracking, third year of timesizing news tracking -
    ytd = jan-dec/2003 based on NYT & WSJ     and for timesizing, AOLNews (jan-sep) & GoogleNews (oct-dec)
    845 timesizing stories (20595+ new/saved jobs) + 105 upsizings (82545+ new jobs)
    + 154 makework episodes (269543 new "jobs"), total 372683 = only 28% of jobcuts
    vs. 693 downsizings (1322987+ cuts) +317 bankruptcies ($23.2B+) +34 homelessness stories +97 prison stories +52 fatalities

    compare last year, 2002, based on NYT & BG (first 6-mons) and NYT & WSJ (last 6-mons), and AOLNews for timesizing:
    523 timesizing stories (83230+ new/saved jobs) + 141 upsizings (101658+ new jobs)
    + 29 makework episodes (219400 new"jobs"), total 404288 = only 38% of 1076326 jobcuts
    vs. 804 downsizings (1076326+) +221 bankruptcies ($103.9B+) +69 homelessness stories +81 prison stories +47 fatalities

    compare 2001, based on NYT & Boston Globe, and AOLNews for timesizing:
    404 timesizings/sharework +164 upsizings (194,907+ new jobs = 10% of jobcuts) + 59 untakovrs (over $138B)
    + 8 makework episodes (100,000+ new "jobs"), total 294,907 = 15% of jobcuts
    vs. 1418 downsizings/cutwork (1,921,040 jobcuts +??) + 196 bankruptcies     + 1,463 takeovers (total $1 trillion +??)

    compare 2000, based on NYT & Boston Globe

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