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Telework adding flexibility to jobs

Telework – the use of computers and telecommunications to allow employees to work at home – is becoming an important tool for more companies. One application of telework is telecommuting: People on a company payroll working at home at least part of the week instead of coming into the office. Many of these workers, estimated…

It’s official: America back in the big time

Hellooo. After 15 years of hand-wringing about America’s economic and competitive decline, The New York Timesfinally came to its senses last Sunday — with a lead story on the front page it its “Week in Review” section called “Worldbeaters: Puffed Up by Prosperity, U.S. Struts Its Stuff.” The rest of the American establishment is now on…

Alexander has vision for us all

Republican presidential aspirant Lamar Alexander was in Denver this week, another in a string of visits to important post-New Hampshire Republican primary states. With the campaign of Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole collapsing in New Hampshire, Iowa and Arizona, where rookie Steve Forbes is already in first place or challenging Dole in most of the…