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...German engineers is a result of economics and education. Countries like India, China and the Czech Republic are producing highly qualified engineers who are less expensive than their German counterparts. And it's not just engineers who are caught in the global squeeze. In 2004 Siemens extracted an agreement from its workforce at two mobile-phone-handset plants in Bocholt and Kamp-Lintfort to work longer hours and accept a cut in holiday pay. Frustrated union leaders say they were blackmailed into eating what amounted to a 20% wage cut. "We had to accept these terms because there...
...prevented? Despite the stated goals of the Bush Administration, a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians remains at best a distant prospect. The longer the stalemate persists and living conditions for the Palestinians continue to deteriorate, the more likely it is that slaughter will return to Israel's streets. For all the security measures established over the years, defending against suicide attacks relies ultimately on the conscience of the bombers. Israeli intelligence believes women receive far less training and preparation for their suicide missions than do men, ranging from weeks to days; on several occasions, would-be female terrorists...
...before Harvard can even get permission to start construction—which it hopes to do by early fall—it must submit a “cooperation agreement” to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), codifying its plans to benefit the Allston community. In negotiating this agreement, Harvard should offer initiatives that that take advantage of its strengths—its educational resources...
Though the signatories to the final agreement will be Harvard and the BRA, the Harvard-Allston Task Force, a committee of local residents, met last week to compile a table of goals and proposals for short-, medium-, and long-term projects that Harvard could undertake to benefit the community...
...Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein, announcing the Chiquita plea agreement, said: "Corporations are on notice that they cannot make protection payments to terrorists." But the human rights lawyers complain that the message from the Chiquita deal is that if companies do transgress, they'll be let off lightly...