As we talked about in last year's trends, economic productivity has not kept up with economic growth (or salary increases for that matter), and this is a funny paradox when you consider how many successful technology providers there are.
Economists argued over how much of that increase — and, for that matter, the surprising strength in consumer spending — was caused by the unseasonably warm winter.
Congress ended its session this year without giving judges their expected cost-of-living increase or, for that matter, approving a budget for the federal courts.
It finds "no statistically significant increase" in black carbon from fires in northern regions and an increase that is likely too small to matter from wildfires in temperate North America.
To justify such fee increases, or for that matter the very existence of fees, this country's museums have come to cast themselves as a blend of popular entertainment, corporation and school.
No one could be hired or promoted, have his staff increased, or, for that matter, get his office repainted or fitted out with a rug or new curtains unless Joe D. signed off on it in his quarters--Room 1 in the basement of City Hall, just below the Mayor's office.
KATHERINE BELL: So how can organizations, and individual managers for that matter, increase the intrinsic motivation of the people who work for them?
Consistent with this, parasitic gut infections did not correlate with significantly decreased IFN-γ production (or for that matter increased IL-4 production) in our study population – a result that also matches with a separate, recent study in pastoralists from Ethiopia [ 30].
That increase matters because pension payments are linked to the minimum wage.
As does, for that matter, the increased popularity of the sport in Europe, even as more data come to light showing just how violent the game really is.
