Julia Sweeney on letting go of God

Companies reduce their superfluous employees annual bonuses, but do not get rid of them.

As industries suffering from insufficient demand shed workers, industries benefiting from surplus demand hire them.

Weaker companies are shedding labor, while stronger firms are delaying investments in plant and equipment.

In Ireland right now, as in so many countries, many large companies are laying off people with experience.

Such programs cannot dispense with the need for government resolve, as Greece s travails demonstrate.

If you tell to people, we want to be independent from fossil energy in our world, people will laugh at you, except here, where crazy people are invited to speak.

In the process, it will shed lower value added jobs in its export sector as production moves to lower cost developing countries.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Companies often lay off a whole department of scientists to shift to a new product, destroying not only human capital, but also human lives.

Maybe, after a period of practice, you can dispense with the mirror, unlearn the paralysis, and start moving your paralyzed arm, and then, relieve yourself of pain.

The peaceful use of outer space is indispensable for countries with undertakings in communication, navigation, space flight, meteorology, remote sensing, disaster reduction and other fields of science and technology.

In practice, the banks have consistently dragged their feet on mortgage restructuring and are laying off staff, rather than hiring people who could help them deal with an initiative of the required scale.

The number of inefficient workers protected by these measures is offset by the number of efficient workers laid off by foreign multinationals responding to political pressures in their home country.

As a result, the advanced economies have been shedding routine jobs at a rapid rate, while adding non routine jobs (for example, those that cannot yet be replaced or reduced by machines and networked computers).

In fact, if you're a marketer, why not dispense with a single right answer and let the consumer specify what she wants to have happen with her data (and corresponding privileges access rights if necessary)? That s much more useful than vague policy statements.

Of course, no company can do that, but many US companies have been shedding workers and middle managers in great numbers the figures for January 2008 were up 19 from a year earlier.

But there has clearly been a great deal of reliance on this strategy, with companies shedding employees not only because they must, but often because they have not met Wall Street analysts financial expectations.

That is, military science and technology that they need can create the advanced materials industrial cluster that transforms its civilian economy and gets the country off oil, which would be a huge contribution to eliminating conflict over oil and advancing national and global security.

As a result, these labor intensive sectors must release a lot of labor and capital, which push into the capital intensive export sectors that are better able to cope with high wages.

In the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia staff survey mentioned in paragraph 9 above, over 80 per cent of staff indicated that they would consider remaining until the organization would no longer require their services if a retention bonus were to be offered.