.... the fastest growing technical jobs, software engineering tops the list. Carnegie Mellon University reports, “recruitment of it's software engineering students is up this year by over 20%.” All engineering jobs are paying well, proving that highly skilled labor is what employers want! “There is clear evidence that the supply of workers in the [unskilled labor] categories already exceeds the demand for their services,” says L. Mishel, Research Director of Welfare Reform Network. In view of these facts, I wonder if these trends are good or bad for society. “ The danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be cheaper to replace workers wi ....

.... be, must be, something deeper, more fundamental. Thus, the pertinent question is, what is leadership? True leadership in business today is not as much about control and command as it is about service (Yow). A leader is one who can: look into the future and identify a challenging yet attainable goal; articulate this goal and the actions required to achieve it; and inspire others to share and commit their energies to attain the vision. Keys to successful leadership in business are (Gardner): Aiming High Involving Others Challenge the Status Quo Lead by Example Aim High: A vision, by definition, is an ideal. In developing a vision, consider all the strengths of ....

.... to look at their economic standings and see where cut backs could be made and services replaced. In Oakland, the city government closed a fire station and four branch libraries, reduced the police departments money towards investigations, reducing after school programs, eliminating over 100 city jobs, and much more. The idea of volunteerism became a good way to cut back on paying for services, but still keeps the service going. This was used in helping keep things like neighborhood security and libraries in service. Although the volunteerism was a good way to help, the most significant change was the privatization of services. Privatization “may well be seen by ....

.... The individuals who make less always want more. If these people had more they could buy something a little bit nicer than they had before. Now those who have more money than the average person seem to want more also. If they get more, they can get better. The more they have the better they are. It's all a power trip. The people who do not make too much are not too happy. They do not have that the nice new car that their neighbor has. They always want something that someone else has because they think it'll make them better. Now, those who have money are unhappy a lot. They can never get enough. Everything that they have needs to be updated and when they get the item it ....

.... The flaw in the protectionist's argument is to view only a tiny part of the economy, imagining how it would be affected by taxing its foreign competitors, ignoring the remainder of the economy, and then concluding that what is best for that small part of the economy must be good for the whole. It's a laughable logic. Import restrictions can take several forms. Typically, Congress will use tariffs and quotas to protect a domestic firms from foreign competition. Tariffs are a monetary tax on each unit of an imported commodity. Quotas are a numerical limit on the annual quantity of particular imports. A more subtle form of protectionism is the minimum quality standard. In the ....

.... And they differ on every important dimension--who initiates it, who is involved, what they control, and whether they are accountable to an outside authority. Site-based management may be instituted by state law or by administrative action, by a district, or by a school. It may be linked to an accountability system with consequences tied to student performance, or it may not be.” According to Priscilla Wohlstetter and Susan Albers Mohrman, “school leaders across the nation are exploring ways to better educate students and improve school performance. School-based management (SBM) offers a way to promote improvement by decentralizing control from central district offices to ....

.... included some 10.8 million sheep, 3.5 million goats, 800000 head of cattle, 31 million poultry and 1.2 million pigs. Forestry and Fishing The Greek government owns the two-thirds of the forestland and has materialised her plans i.e. to replace the trees that were destroyed during World War II. About 2.9 million cu m of timber were annually cut in the late 80's and approximately the 75% of the harvest was hardwood. Fish exports are limited because of the widespread consumption of fish products within Greece. However in recent years thousands of tons of fish are exported each year, due to the ever increasing development of fish farms in the country. In the late 80's the annu ....

.... countries to craft an agreement that would open its economy to full competition with the other two countries. If successful, the agreement promised to make the whole North American continent into one economic zone and set an important precedent for trade and economic cooperation between the wealthy countries of the North and less developed countries of the South. The challenge before them was both exciting and daunting. A little more than a year later, the three trade ministers met again in Washington, to put the finishing touches on a new North American Free Trade Agreement. In just over a year the negotiators from the three countries had successfully met the challen ....