Trainee journalists worldwide face low wages, unreasonably stretched job descriptions and self-censorship pressures, while tutors at local journalism schools are forced to double as campaigners for press rights.
You'll need a few basic tools to complete a canvas stretching job properly.
If you want to stretch the Jobs analogy, that's was essentially his path in leaving Pixar and returning to Apple for redemption and glory.
I read George Vecsey's column "Bonds Will Pass 714, but Not the Legend" (May 2), and it occurred to me that maybe sportswriters were stretching their job functions to the area of gossip columnists.
He stretched the job description so far to fit his own agenda that the definition of "vice" lost its secondary meaning; at times during the build-up to the Iraq war, Mr. Cheney seemed more like Cardinal Richelieu than Tonto.
The nation employs fewer people than it has at any point since late 1999, its longest stretch without job growth in 20 years.
Economists were cautiously optimistic, saying the data -- which came after a report last week showed that employers added 57,000 workers to their payrolls last month -- at least suggested a long stretch of job losses could be over.
"If I had told you eight years ago that America would reverse a great recession, reboot our auto industry, and unleash the longest stretch of job creation in our history," he began, "if I had told you that we would win marriage equality, and secure the right to health insurance for another twenty million of our fellow-citizens, you might have said our sights were set a little too high".
That was a better-than-expected number and it continued the longest consecutive stretch of job growth on record.
After a decade of decline, American manufacturing is in its best stretch of job growth since the 1990s.
