It's the equivalent of a Disney Channel of broadband interactive content. It's become a good business for Disney. Our goal is to be as ubiquitous as the Disney Channel. |
means that if you get the job, you don't have to belong to a union, [and] that employers are not required to have a unionized workforce. |
Nothing is going to happen in terms of improving confidence until something happens in terms of an improving labor market, and that might well take until after New Year's. |
One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is. |
Overall economic momentum is no longer firing on all cylinders. And hiring intentions this summer are suggestive that companies may not increase hiring until the economy regains more solid footing. |
Part of the real story here is that, through July, producers were still getting more output, with fewer labor hours put in. Productivity in the third quarter is probably going to be stronger than in the second quarter, confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not that bad. |
People are doing what they want. A lot of the companies that are using these people are doing what they can do profitably. |
Productivity is the wild card. It's the one thing that has kept the tension between prices and wages on a low simmer. |
Rising business costs and uncertainty in many companies about price hikes is a major consideration now in how fast the domestic economy can grow, especially in the second half of the year. |
Severe weather conditions and uncertainty over interest rates may help explain why the rise in the indicators was cut short. |
Signals for the immediate future point to continued expansion, although not at the breakneck pace of the fourth quarter of 1999, ... The biggest risk to the ongoing expansion continues to be interest-rate increases and the prospect of still more Federal Reserve Board action. |
Some of the department store sales don't make sense to me, |
That the index is starting to turn more positive is telling us to look for a better economic outlook overall as early as spring. |
That's about as good as it gets for the next six months, ... We're about to downshift at least one gear, especially with respect to the job market. |
That's about as good as it gets for the next six months. We're about to downshift at least one gear, especially with respect to the job market. |