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Consumer Corner: Foreclosure settlement no magic bullet for economy
ZEELAND, Mich., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The staple of the U.S. office work space, the cubicle, turns 40 next year.
The partial-walled work stations were developed in the Michigan labs of office furniture maker Herman Miller Inc.
Sales of cubicle furniture account for more than half of the $10 billion office furniture market in North America, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Sunday.
Cubicles were designed to replace rows of desks that once marked most large businesses. Instead, the cubicle has become a hated office institution. Fortune magazine once dubbed it the Fidel Castro of office furniture, the newspaper reported.
"I spent 16 years in a cubicle," said Scott Adams, creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip, which regularly features life working in a cubicle. "And I still remember walking into the office and having the life drained out of me as I approached my fabric-covered box."
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SYDNEY, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Researchers in Australia are developing a solar roof system that uses wasted energy to warm air and water.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Israel's military says major cuts in defense spending will hit air-defense missile systems and halt production of tanks and a new armored personnel carrier.
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Local markets will probably not be swamped by waves of foreclosures following the multi-state mortgage settlement announced yesterday. Rather, the huge inventory of one to two million foreclosures will enter markets gradually....
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Investors will not have the distraction of financial reports to look forward to this week. They will have to look at the spot news headlines instead.
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