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Unemployment is very very high:
Continued claims are now at 3.84 million, the highest level since 1983.
This is bad |
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| By: Ari Thursday November 6, 2008 7:53 am | |
This is bad |
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| By: Ari Thursday November 6, 2008 7:53 am | |
Unemployment is very very high:
Continued claims are now at 3.84 million, the highest level since 1983.
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my company layed of or allowed to atritte (word?) about 25 percent of our force
[atritte] a new word by perris, it is the conjugation into a verb the word attrition
And that doesn’t count all of the out-of-work lobbyists on K Street!
You are correct, it is a back formation from attrition. These sorts of things drives William Safire crazy (crazier), which may not be a bad thing.