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...growers, like those in Nassif's organization, of exaggerating worker shortages to prevent tougher enforcement of immigration laws. But Manuel Cunha, Jr., president of the Nisei Farmers League in Fresno, Calif., whose organization represents 1,000 small farmers, says this year's shortage is real, and likely to affect much more than the Central San Joaquin Valley. Winter lettuce, broccoli, and other crops could be next, then the large-scale agricultural producers in Texas and Florida, not to mention hotels, slaughterhouses and restaurants. "Businesses across the country depend on unauthorized foreign labor," Cunha says. "Congress must develop good immigration policies...
...laugh? The scientists, who together proved that the vast majority of stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria-not stress, spicy food or alcohol-are officially Nobel Laureates. In awarding the prize today, the Nobel committee commented that the pair had fundamentally altered the scientific view of a disease that affects up to five million people in the U.S. each year. Asked how winning the Nobel Prize would affect his future, Warren replied with a West Australian?s typical laconic self-deprecation: "Yeah, we'll have to come to Sweden...
...transition in leadership may affect the morale of an organization, Meyer acknowledged...
...Cadillac, for instance, has infused a lab-developed, focus-group-tested "Cadillac aroma" in all of its car seats for years. Branding experts know that, to be effective, olfactory and acoustic assaults must be subtle. "If you make these things feel like advertising, that you're doing this to affect behavior, you've failed," says Peter Dixon of brand consultancy Lippincott Mercer, which is working with Samsung and Hyatt Place. In other words, exercising restraint just makes sense...
...does retirement affect marriages...