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...arrested 250 unauthorized immigrants on cleaning crews at 61 stores in 21 states. None of those arrested were Wal-Mart employees but rather employees of cleaning contractors. Wal-Mart eventually reached a settlement with the government for $11 million. But with sales in the billions, Wal-Mart can absorb the settlement as the cost of doing business...
...Rice's midguided revolutionary rhetoric is only one of the mistakes the Secretary of State made on her ill-fated mission to the MIdeast. Some other lessons the Administration will need to absorb quickly from its crash course in Middle East diplomacy...
...first is that there is a natural tendency to absorb, recall and live by the negatives. It's a survival instinct. Jaded and burned-out nurses and doctors are made in big-city ERs. The few who work there for decades and don't get cynical are special and possess a virtue I admire. When dealing with reality they see past the ugly and dangerous. They are not irrational idealists, blinded to all but the politically correct conclusion. But they are vulnerable. To recognize and learn from these few great ER nurses and docs should be the highest priority...
...made a comeback. But with future interest rate hikes now starting to be priced into the market, investor fears that central bankers around the world will go overboard and continue to drive rates higher is set to furuther spook markets. This is no trading correction that investors have to absorb. The real risk of a jarring bear market has emerged...
...much as 70%. "Our situation depends now on growing, always growing," he says. "I don't see it collapsing all at once; this isn't Latin America or East Asia in the late 1990s. But in Spain we still don't have the capacity of France or Germany to absorb problems and still guarantee services to our people." Manuel Prados, president of adicae, an association of financial-services consumers, says 40% of Spanish households have trouble getting to the end of the month. And even some who don't have trouble found themselves vulnerable with the launch of an investigation...