| A sad day...layoffs announced
So what you end up with usually for survivors is a mixture of people with talent and experience, talent and little experience (less expensive), and people with the skills to do an essential job that no one in his right mind wants to do but actually seems to enjoy it. And then there's a handful of savvy political players who always manage to land on their feet because they're not crippled with much of a conscience. .
Andrew J. Tatich
TATICH, Andrew Joseph, D.D.S., M.S., 61, of Wheeling, W.Va., died Tuesday, November 20, 2007, in Ohio Valley Medical Center. He was born on January 15, 1946, a son of the late Andrew E. Tatich and Della Elizabeth Moore Tatich of Moundsville. He graduated from Moundsville High School in 1963, he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing from West Liberty State College in 1969. He earned the degree of Doctor of Dental Science from West Virginia University in 1975. Also during that year, he was recognized for outstanding achievement by the International College of Dentists. He was a member of Saint Peter and Paul Church in Moundsville. In 1977, Dr. Tatich earned a Master of Science Specialty Degree in Orthodontics from West Virginia University. From 1979 to 1987. Dr. Tatich was a part-time faculty member of the West Virginia University Department of Orthodontics.
Business Briefing
Seattle ranks fifth in popularity as a place to invest among foreign buyers of commercial real estate, says a survey released Monday. For the second year in a row, Seattle ranked behind New York City; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; and San Francisco among the nearly 200 members of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate, according to the poll it conducted last quarter. Among major cities worldwide, Seattle ranked 31st as the favorite commercial investment opportunity, just behind Osaka, Japan. The U.S. remains the world's most stable and secure market, with the largest opportunity for capital appreciation, the survey by the Washington, D.C., group revealed. China is ranked second, with the gap closing quickly. Retail investments are currently most popular among foreigners, up from fifth place in 2006.
7m deprived of access to an NHS dentist
As many as seven million people in Britain have no access to an NHS dentist, a damning new report is expected to reveal next week. Have your say: Have you struggled to find an NHS dentist?The study by the Citizen's Advice Bureau will heap further pressure on ministers at the Department of Health who for 10 years have failed to address the crisis. .
Game's on! East Lansing braces for onslaught of frenzied fans
The 100th matchup between Michigan State University and the University of Michigan football teams kicks off today in East Lansing. And, as it does every year, it will bring with it certain logistical challenges, the kind associated with tens of thousands of people descending on East Lansing - not to mention the potent combination of high emotions and alcohol. "When the Michigan game is going to be in East Lansing, that's on your radar as soon as the season starts," said Cheryl Little, who, together with her husband Jim, owns H&H Mobil. .
A confederacy of dunces
JOHN Biggs of Sandy Bay, Tasmania, took me to task this week in a letter to the editor, for criticising Robert Menzies' educational legacy. He said that I seemed "to be writing about the 1970s and '80s, not the 1940s and '50s". In fact I was discussing the period from 1959 to 1966, the years when Menzies took charge of education, and arguing that the policy failures of the Whitlam, Fraser and Hawke governments in tertiary education mostly had their origins in Menzies' reckless expansion of the sector. Biggs says that before the Martin Report of 1964, the student intake, as a proportion of the age group, was about 2-3 per cent: "Menzies trebled that but the intake was still less than 10 per cent, when the corresponding figure today is about 40 per cent and rising." No one deplores the present tendency to send an ever-increasing number of students into dumbed-down tertiary courses more than I do.
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