Posts Tagged ‘recession’

Ten Things To Do During the
Recession Besides Getting a Nose Job

Some suggestions (and no-nos) for the recently unemployed.

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Other than “eat paper”

From The Guardian: Don’t get depressed: A writer’s guide to surviving the recession. 1.Write in English, British, or American If you want an international audience, however small, it makes no sense to write in Swedish unless you’re Stieg Larsson.

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“It’s kind of like we all went overboard”

From the New York Times: Conspicuous Consumption, a Casualty of Recession. “I think this economy was a good way to cure my compulsive shopping habit,” Maxine Frankel, 59, a high school teacher from Skokie, Ill., said as she longingly stroked a diaphanous black shawl at a shop in the nearby Chicago suburb of Glenview. “It’s [...]

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