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Call me draconian, but something about the flip-flopped guy next to me who clipped his toenails at 37,000??ft.--their crescent moons cartwheeling majestically into the aisle--turned me into a hard-liner on this issue...
...question is, Does he really want to? Last year the government announced a $280 million plan to upgrade Paraguaná and increase its capacity to process Venezuela's abundant heavy crude from 50,000 bbl. to 130,000??bbl. per day. But workers say they have yet to see the project move ahead, and some complain the refineries are underperforming. "It's precarious," says a veteran supervisor. "The plant isn't living up to its original design because [PDVSA doesn't] want to cover the costs...
Since 1998, Wisconsin has lost nearly 90,000??manufacturing jobs. Milwaukee has suffered the brunt of that, hemorrhaging 7,500 positions in 2005 alone. The unemployment rate hovers around 7%, up from 2.6% in 1998 and nearly double the national average. In inner-city neighborhoods, the level rises to nearly 60% for working-age males. With only half of adults earning more than a high school diploma, the city's residents aren't well matched for the white-collar jobs most common today. The number of able men wandering the streets in the daytime is striking...
...intents and purposes, Tony worked for Jack," contends a former Abramoff associate, who tells TIME that Abramoff even bought Rudy a text-messaging pager so that they would never be out of touch. Prosecutors allege that Abramoff also funneled payments to Rudy's wife?10 monthly payments totaling $50,000???through a nonprofit. When Rudy left DeLay's staff in 2000, he joined Abramoff at the lobbying firm of Greenberg Traurig. Rudy now works for Buckham at Alexander Strategy Group, another lobbying operation. Rudy, Buckham and Rudy's lawyer did not return repeated phone calls and e-mails from TIME...
Pooling their savings?some $2,000???Dolce and Gabbana signed up to show their small collection with a group of four other young designers. Word spread around Milan, a few editors and buyers took note, and by March 1986 they were staging their first solo show, ?Real Women.? Dolce's sister Dorotea and his brother Alfonso worked the door. Joan Burstein of the London boutique Brown's came and snapped up the collection of romantic, Sicilian-inspired dresses and strictly tailored pantsuits that were very much in contrast to both Armani and Versace?then the opposing poles...