Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Dec 14, 2015 (II)

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(5) Mark Niquette, The Hidden Cost of Unemployment.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... ars-after-recession
("Thirty-five states borrowed from a federal fund when dismissals from the 18-month recession that began in December 2007 depleted jobless benefit accounts. California, Ohio and Connecticut are the only ones that haven’t retired their debt, which businesses must repay through higher levies. * * * California owes $5.9 billion * * * [though] California has paid $1.3 billion in interest since 2011")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: States pay billions in interest on loans to cover jobless claims
(b) There is no need to read the rest.


(6) Alison Vekshin, Uber Has an Army at Its Fingertips.
http://skift.com/2015/12/02/how- ... r-political-action/

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(7) Sonali Basak, Insuring the Toys of the Wealthy.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... 40-billion-business

Note: summary underneath the title in print: Writing policies for the possessions of 1 percent is a $40 billion business

(8) Tom Redmond and Toshiro Hasegawa, Winning Nobel Prizes and Delighting Investors.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... his-hot-japan-stock

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Hamamatsu's sensors help solve the mysteries of the universe
(b) Toshirō HASEGAWA  長谷川 敏郎

(c) Hamamatsu Photonics KK's high-precision light sensors
(i) KK = 株式会社 (kabu-shiki kai-sha or gai-sha)  (The "k" is softened, and becomes "g," when preceded by at least an syllable.)
(ii) Japanese English dictionary:
* kabu 株 【かぶ】 (n)" "(1) stock; share; (2) (orig. meaning) stump; (3) root; rootstock; (4) strain (of bacteria, etc)"
* 舵(P); 梶; 楫 【かじ】 (n): "rudder; helm"
* hiru 昼(P); 午; 晝(oK) 【ひる】 (n): "noon"
(iii) Hamamatsu Photonics KK  浜松ホトニクス株式会社

(d) "Far from unusual, it was the fourth time Hamamatsu’s sensors had contributed to projects worthy of the most prestigious award in science. The devices -- used by Takaaki Kajita in his 2015 prize-winning analysis of subatomic particles called neutrinos -- also helped confirm the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle, in research that led to the 2013 award. "
(i) Takaaki KAJITA  梶田 隆章
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takaaki_Kajita
(1959- ; at Kamioka Observatory 神岡宇宙素粒子研究施設 (Kamioka 神岡; the observatory is in a mine of of the Kamioka Mining and Smelting Co 神岡鉱業所)
(ii)  Higgs boson: coined in "1970s: named after Peter W Higgs (1929– ), English physicist"

(e) "Akira HIRUMA 晝馬 輝夫, the president of Hamamatsu, said in an interview at the firm’s headquarters in the Japanese city of the same name.:
(i) See (c)(ii) for 晝.
(ii) Hamamatsu  浜松市
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamamatsu
(in Shizuoka Prefecture 静岡県)