PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Tuesday, November 28, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Tuesday, November 28, 2006

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Thirty-Two Percent of Workers Called in Sick With Fake Excuses in the Last Year, CareerBuilder.com's Annual Survey Finds

Are employees getting away with playing hooky from the office? According to CareerBuilder.com's annual survey on absenteeism, 32 percent of workers said they called in sick when they felt well at least once in the last year. One-in-ten admitted to doing so three times or more. And while some employers said they typically don't question excuses given, others were more skeptical. Twenty-seven percent of hiring managers reported they have fired a worker for calling in sick without a legitimate reason.

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Original 'Cowardly Lion' Costume Worn by Bert Lahr in 'The Wizard of Oz' to Be Auctioned by World-Renowned 'Profiles in History,' December 14-15, 2006

Fans and collectors world-wide will want to "Put 'em up, put 'em up" when Bert Lahr's original lion costume from the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" goes on the auction block during Profiles in History's two-day Hollywood Memorabilia auction, beginning Thursday, December 14th. Joseph Maddalena's Profiles in History, the number one company in the world for live and simultaneous Internet memorabilia auctions, will begin the two-day, three million dollar auction featuring over 900 items at noon Pacific time. The "Cowardly Lion" costume is expected to sell for 400-thousand to 600-thousand dollars. It is regarded as the most coveted piece of Hollywood history still available. It stands alone as the sole "Wizard of Oz" character costume available to collectors in the public domain; the "Tin Man" was destroyed and the "Scarecrow" is currently housed in the Smithsonian.

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Visitors to Merriam-Webster Online to Vote for 2006 Word of the Year

Merriam-Webster OnLine is taking a different approach this year to one of its most popular features. The site ordinarily determines the top ten most-frequently looked up Words of the Year by culling through thousands of anonymous hits to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Online Thesaurus. This year, for the first time, visitors to Merriam-Webster OnLine will be able to send in their own votes for the one word they feel best sums up the past eleven months and the one they believe most deserves the distinction of

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2006. All submissions will be tallied by the company's staff, and results will be announced online at Merriam-webster.com in December.

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Wii Is a Massive Hit

Built on a foundation of pure fun, Nintendo's new Wii (wee) video game system sold through to more than 600-thousand consumers in the Americas in just its first eight days of availability. That's a rate of nearly one per second continuously since the November 19th launch. Including just first-party software and accessory sales, Wii instantly has become a 190-million dollar business in the Americas.

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PRNewswire -- Nov. 28

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