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<p align="center"> <img border="0" src="../graphics/hronthejob.jpg" width="504" height="54"></p>
<p align="center"><b><font face="Verdana" size="6">
<a href="../pn/pn-employeesurvival.pdf">Employee's Survival Guide for Tough
Times</a></font></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><font face="Verdana">(Click above to open the PDF)</font></b></p>
<hr>
<h2 style="margin-left:.75in" align="center">
<font face="Verdana" color="#008000">Have an employment question?</font></h2>
<h3 style="margin-left:.75in" align="center"><font face="Verdana">Send it to
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=From HR On The Job">
[email protected]</a></font></h3>
<p style="margin-left:.75in" align="center"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2">
Please include Company Name and Association in your e-mail. Company
identification will be kept confidential.</font></b></p>
<hr>
<h2 align="left"><b><u><font
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hitchhiking on the Information
Highway</font></u></b></h2>
<p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font
size="4" color="#FF0000">Dateline: February 200</font></b></font><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#FF0000">9</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1">Note. Although we attempt to provide the HRU update on the first
of each month, we are normally delayed awaiting the release of several
monthly government statistical reports. We will hereafter update the information
as each report becomes available without waiting for all of them to be
released.</font></i></p>
<p> </p>
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<td width="100%" height="2438" align="left">
<blockquote>
<div align="center">
<div align="left">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="5">UNEMPLOYMENT HITS
MEN HARDER</font></span></b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">Last week�s data shows that the
unemployment rate for men is higher (7.2%) than women (5.9%). Why
is that?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">Because the layoffs have been
mostly in jobs dominated by men: construction and manufacturing,
while industries dominated by women, health care and education are
in high demand with shortages. In addition, more women have jobs
that are part-time with no benefits. Being less expensive, they
often keep their jobs while the men who are in full-time jobs with
benefits are more tempting targets in lay-offs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; border: medium none; padding: 0in">
<font face="Verdana"><b>�Whether you believe you can do
a thing or not, <br>
you are right.�</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align: right; border: medium none; padding: 0in">
<font face="Verdana"><i>Henry Ford</i></font></div>
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</table>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="5">ONE MISTAKE
TRIGGERS 30% OF ALL IRS AUDITS</font></span></b></p>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Verdana">(And then they
turn you in for a DOL audit.)</span><p class="MsoNormal" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">It�s that Independent Contractor
thing again. Employers are often tempted to classify an employee as
an independent contractor (IC) because it saves them money and often
the employee/IC makes more as well. An independent contractor (IC)
can bid a total sum for the weeks work he is doing (and that figure
might be higher than his normal pay for a week) and the employer
doesn�t have to pay all that taxes, benefits, unemployment etc. And
often the IC doesn�t either. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">IRS says the red flag for them
was that the number of companies using ICs keeps going up every
year. So they�re taking the following actions:</span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -.25in; margin-left: .5in" align="left">
<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7.0pt; font-family: Verdana"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana">Increasing
audits by an additional 30% for IC claims </span></li>
<li>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -.25in; margin-left: .5in" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">Presenting a new bill to
congress (The Taxpayer Responsibility, Accounting and
Consistency Act - TRAC) which will toughen the penalties.</span></li>
</ul>
<p align="left">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Verdana">In addition,
11 states are following suits and have, or are considering, enacting
similar laws. Those states are CA, CT, MA, MN, NE, NH, NJ, NY, PA,
RI, and UT. </span></p>
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<td valign="top" height="85">
<p align="center"><b><font face="Verdana">"A ship in harbor
is safe,<br>
But that is not what ships are built for"</font></b></p>
<p align="right"><i><font face="Verdana">John Shedd</font></i></td>
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</table>
<p><b><span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="5">400 ADA
LAWSUITS�BY ONE MAN!</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">We�re not saying that you should
refuse to hire Jerek Moleski if he applies for a job at your place,
but if you do, you�d better get lawyered-up. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">Moleski age 38 was injured in a
motorcycle accident nearly 20 years ago and is confined to a
wheelchair. But that doesn�t stop him from making hundreds of trips
to California courtrooms to file about 400 individual lawsuits using
the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against businesses that
don�t follow disability-access regulations to his satisfaction. The
fines can run as high as $4,000 a day. So the owners are faced with
three possibilities: </span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -.25in; margin-left: .5in" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">Settle with Moloski out of
court</span></li>
<li>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -.25in; margin-left: .5in" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">Pay for the renovations</span></li>
<li>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -.25in; margin-left: .5in" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">Pay the fines.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">Court records show that most
companies settle with Moleski out of court. But all that may be
coming to an end. One federal judge has barred Moleski from filing
any more lawsuits in the Central District of California. And the
U.S. Supreme court recently denied Moleski�s appeal to hear his suit
which he previously lost, against a Chinese restaurant. He�s a hero
to some and a scam artist scamming the system to others.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" height="85">
<p align="center"><b><font face="Verdana">"Put a grain of
boldness in everything<br>
you do"</font></b></p>
<p align="right"><i><font face="Verdana">Baltasar Cracian</font></i></td>
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</table>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="5">EEOC, CATCHING AND
GETTING CAUGHT</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">While 60% of surveyed companies
say they are planning layoffs this year, the number of lawsuits for
wrongful terminations has increased 35%! An increase of 25% in wage
and overtime suits was also reported as was a 16% increase in
pensions and benefits suits all related to layoffs. The Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is involved in most of
these cases and they�re getting pretty busy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">
<span style="font-family: Verdana">But in a related court case, EEOC
has been ordered to pay $225, 000 in attorney�s fees and costs to
reimburse a company EEOC had relentlessly pursued for an ADA
charge. The court ruled that there was no validity to the charge
and that EEOC had failed to investigate the matter or to attempt in
a good faith manner, to reconcile the charge. The court wrote that
EEOC �abandoned its duties and pursued a groundless action with
exorbitant demands�.</span></p>
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<p align="center"><b><font face="Verdana">"Nothing would be
done at all if a man waited till he<br>
could do it so well that no one could find fault with it"</font></b></p>
<p align="right"><i><font face="Verdana">Captain John Henry
Newman</font></i></td>
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<blockquote><hr width="75%">
<p></p>
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<span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
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<p align="left"><font size="-1"
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Federal Minimum Wage:</b></font></p>
</div>
</td>
<center>
<td width="61%" valign="top">
<h3 align="left"><font
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">$6.55/hr. </font></h3>
<p align="left"><i><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">Increases
to $7.25 on 7/24/09</font></i>
</td>
</center>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" width="99%">
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="middle" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1"><font
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Average
Income:</b></font></td>
<td width="67%" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1">
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<td width="50%" align="center"><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">Hourly</font></b></td>
<td width="50%" align="center"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Weekly</font></b></td>
</tr>
</table>
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<td width="25%" height="50">
<p align="center">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
<u><b>March 2008</b></u><br>
$17.</font><font size="-1">97</font></td>
<td width="25%" height="50">
<p align="center">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><u><b>March
2009</b><br>
</u>$18.</font><font size="-1">49</font></td>
<td width="25%" height="50">
<p align="center">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
<span style="text-decoration: underline"><b>March 2008</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none"><br>
</span>
</font>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
$</font><font size="-1">607.39</font></td>
<td width="25%" height="50">
<p align="center">
<u><font size="-1"><b>March 2009</b></font></u><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><u><br>
</u>$616.19</font></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="20%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0">
<table border="0" width="99%" height="96">
<tr>
<td width="100%" height="40" colspan="2">
<h3 align="center"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Federal<br>
Poverty Level:</b></font></span></h3>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%" height="48">
<p align="center"><b><u><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">One
(1) Person<br>
</font></u></b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">$10,400</font></td>
<td width="50%" height="48">
<p align="center"><u><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">Family
of Four</font></b></u><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><br>
$21,200</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
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</table>
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<hr noshade color="#000000">
</font>
<table border="0" width="100%">
<tr> <b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
<td width="37%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">
<p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1"><b>IRS Mileage Allowance :</b></font></p>
</td>
</font></b>
<center>
<td width="63%" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1">
<div align="left"><b> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><u>January
1, 2009, IRS mileage allowance:</u><br><br>Business Purposes: 55 cents per mile<br>Medical or Moving Purposes: 24 cents per mile<br>Charitable Purposes: 14 cents per mile</font></b></div>
</td>
</center>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0">
<tr>
<td width="37%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">
<p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1"><b>Postage:</b></font></p>
</td>
<center>
</center>
<td width="63%" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="37%" style="border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1">1 oz.</font></td>
<td width="63%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">.42</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="37%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1">Each additional ounce</font></td>
<td width="63%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">2
oz. .27</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="37%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1"><i>Postcards</i></font></td>
<td width="63%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">.27</font></td>
</tr>
</table>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
<hr noshade color="#000000">
<b>
<p>
<table border="0" width="38%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
</table>
<table border="0" width="98%">
<tr>
<td width="34%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">
<p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1"><b><u>Population:</u></b></font></p>
</td>
<center>
<td width="82%" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1"> </td>
</center>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="34%" style="border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1"><b>World</b></font></td>
<td width="82%">
<p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1">6.8 Billion</font>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="34%" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1"><b>U.S.</b></font></td>
<td width="82%" valign="top">
<p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">306.2
Million</font>
<p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><i>One
birth every 8 seconds<br>
One death every 12 seconds<br>
One new immigrant every 36 seconds<br>
Net gain = 1 person every 14 seconds</i></font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</b>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Note: The world and the U.S. growth figures are
declining each year. Compared to 2008, the U.S. this year has fewer
births, more deaths and fewer immigrants coming in. Worldwide, the
future work-force is dwindling while the more developed countries are
depending on immigrants to make up their work-force.</i></p>
<hr noshade color="#000000">
<table border="1" width="99%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0">
<tr> <b>
<td width="48%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">
<p align="left"><b> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">U.S.
Workforce</font></b></p>
</td>
</b>
<center>
<td width="12%" align="center">
<u><font size="-1"><b>March 2008</b></font></u></td>
<b>
<td width="12%" align="center">
<u><font size="-1"><b>March 2009</b></font></u></td>
</b>
</center>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="48%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1">U.S. Civilian Workforce</font></td>
<td width="12%" align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
153,135,000</font></td>
<td width="12%" align="center"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">154,048,000</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="48%"><font size="-1">Number Employed</font></td>
<td width="12%" align="center"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">145,108,000</font></td>
<td width="12%" align="center"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
140,887,000</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="48%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1">Number Unemployed</font></td>
<td width="12%" align="center"> <font size="-1">8,221,000</font></td>
<td width="12%" align="center"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
13,161,000</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="48%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1">Unemployment Rate</font></td>
<td width="12%" align="center">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">5.4%</font></p>
</td>
<td width="12%" align="center">
<p><font size="-1">8</font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">.5%</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="48%"><span style="text-decoration: none">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="-1">Absentee Rate</font></span></td>
<td width="12%" align="center">
<font size="-1">-</font></td>
<td width="12%" align="center">
<font size="-1">3.1%<br>
(2.2% sick, 0.9% other),<br>
4.1% women, 2.3% men</font></td>
</tr>
</table>
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<td width="100%">
<h4><b><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PRODUCTIVITY
OF THE AMERICAN WORKFORCE</font></b><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
(The amount of goods produced, divided by the number of work hours
it took to produce it)</font></h4>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>
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<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>1992</b></font></p>
</td>
<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">3.7%</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>1993</b></font></p>
</td>
<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">0.5%</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>1994</b></font></p>
</td>
<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">1.3%</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>1995</b></font></p>
</td>
<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">0.9%</font></p>
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<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>1996</b></font></p>
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<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">2.5%</font></p>
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<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>1997</b></font></p>
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<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">2.0%</font></p>
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<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>1998</b></font></p>
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<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">2.6%</font></p>
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<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>1999</b></font></p>
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<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">2.4%</font></p>
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<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>2000</b></font></p>
</td>
<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">2.9%</font></p>
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<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>2001</b></font></p>
</td>
<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">1.1%</font></p>
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<td width="32%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>2002</b></font></p>
</td>
<td width="68%">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">4.7%</font></p>
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<td width="32%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>2003</b></font></td>
<td width="68%"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">4.5%</font></td>
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<td width="32%"><font size="-1"><b>2004</b></font></td>
<td width="68%"><font size="-1">4.0%</font></td>
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<td width="32%"> <span style="text-decoration: none"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>2005</b></font></span></td>
<td width="68%"> <span style="text-decoration: none"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2.6%</font></span></td>
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<td width="32%"> <span style="text-decoration: none"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>2006</b></font></span></td>
<td width="68%"> <span style="text-decoration: none"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">3.0%</font></span></td>
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<td width="32%">
<span style="text-decoration: none"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>2007</b></font></span></td>
<td width="68%">
<span style="text-decoration: none">
<font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1.9%</font></span></td>
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<td width="32%"> <span style="text-decoration: none"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>
200</b></font></span><font size="-1"><b>8 1st Quarter</b></font></td>
<td width="68%">
<span style="text-decoration: none">
<font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">+2.6%</font></span></td>
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<td width="32%">
<span style="text-decoration: none">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
<b>
200</b><font size="-1"><b>8 2nd Quarter</b></font></font></span></td>
<td width="68%">
<span style="text-decoration: none">
<font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">+3.6%</font></span></td>
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<td width="32%">
<span style="text-decoration: none">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
<b>
200</b><font size="-1"><b>8 3rd Quarter</b></font></font></span></td>
<td width="68%">
<span style="text-decoration: none">
<font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">+1.3%</font></span></td>
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<td width="32%">
<span style="text-decoration: none">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
<b>
200</b><font size="-1"><b>8 4th Quarter</b></font></font></span></td>
<td width="68%">
<span style="text-decoration: none">
<font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">3.2%</font></span></td>
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<td width="32%"> <font size="-1"><b>Overall Average Productivity 2008</b></font></td>
<td width="68%">
<font size="-1">2.8</font><span style="text-decoration: none"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">%</font></span></td>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">� William J. Cook</font></p>
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