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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Oof! There&#39;s a whole bunch of depressing headlines out there just waiting to weigh down anyone looking for a ray of hope in their job search. Apparently, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;more than 200,000 job losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; have now been announced since the beginning of the year, and we aren&#39;t anywhere near the end of the earnings season yet, meaning more are sure to follow. Sure, some of you might get a kick out of the fact that one of those layoffs happens to be Merrill Lynch&#39;s million-dollar office decorator-in-chief John Thain, but &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;schadenfreude&lt;/i&gt; alone won&#39;t pay the bills. Especially as &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;U.S. consumer confidence is now at all-time lows&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Perhaps most depressing of all, however, is the realization that no industry is likely to go untouched. Indeed, a report from &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;Advertising Age&lt;/i&gt; indicates that people are even &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;cutting back on toilet paper&lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; That&#39;s right: &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;toilet paper.&lt;/i&gt; The mind boggles. Well, a little part of it anyway. Other parts merely wonder what people are using for an alternative. Could this new reality be the real reason behind Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim &lt;span class=&quot;apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Hel&amp;#250;&lt;/span&gt;&#39;s&lt;/span&gt; recent &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;$250 million investment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; to save the&lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt; New York Times&lt;/i&gt;? Perhaps he&#39;s anticipating people going all Great Depression-ish and finding an additional use for the Gray Lady.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Or maybe the 5.5% drop in Kimberley-Clark&#39;s sales is down to a whole new level of frugality&amp;#8212;people cutting out bathroom breaks to cut costs and, if still in a job, minimize time away from their desks. &lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;If so, beware: one can certainly imagine such an idea becoming corporate policy at, say, the likes of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Dunder-Mifflin&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt&quot;&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix=&quot;o&quot; ns=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot;?&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;--Posted by Phil Stott, Vault Staff Writer&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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