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Although Katzive predicts the loonie will drop below par by the end of 2008, that may be too little too late for many. "No one can adjust cost and pricing fast enough," says Jayson Myers, president of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, the country's largest trade and industry association, referring to the loonie's 18% run-up over the past 10 months. "We're going to see more manufacturers close down as a result...
...have to make sourcing decisions three or four years ahead of production," says Hogan, who is asking his 52 remaining Canadian plants for annual productivity gains of 6% to 10% to avoid offshoring more jobs. Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, says his industry can adjust to a strong loonie rivaling the greenback, but there will be consequences. "We're going to shrink dramatically if the Canadian dollar stays where it's at," says Fedchun...
...untangle the effects of abortion from, say, the effects of being poor (which also happens to increase a woman's odds of having an abortion). But the researchers behind the JECH study, which evaluated just over 45,000 single-child live births from 1959 to 1966, were able to adjust for an impressive array of confounding variables, including race, age, weight, height, marital status, occupation, the number of prenatal visits, the number of previous children, smoking and drinking habits, drug habits, infant gender and both parents' education levels...
Fitzsimmons explained that other schools have several months remaining in which to adjust their own plans for financial aid, so it is “impossible to know” what the total effect on Harvard’s yield might be. The recruiting efforts of other schools are also an important factor, he said...
...what is she?” asks Malik. Malik translated al-Hakim’s text from Arabic into English himself, and he and the cast constantly refer to the original text.“We refer back to the original many times for enlightenment, and sometimes adjust the script to fit the actors speaking it,” he says.With this production, Malik is trying to present to American audiences an important play from Arabic literature that is practically unknown outside of the Middle East.“I translated this play from Arabic hoping that it would serve...