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...from Miami to a snowbound Minnesota town in order to downsize the workforce at a factory. Despite what you might think, it is not a reality show but rather a wish-fulfillment fantasy for our economic times: good old-fashioned American ingenuity will certainly save the day. As a bonus, someone's frosty heart is bound to be thawed in the process by a strapping Minnesowt...
...slumping results that look likely to plummet in 2009, McDonald's on Monday announced earnings of $985.3 million in the fourth quarter of last year. While that near billion-dollar activity represented a 23% drop over the same period the previous year - due mostly to an extraordinary tax bonus accounted to 2007 books - McDonald's also revealed an 11% rise in fourth-quarter consolidated operating income to $1.5 billion on global sales gains...
...album is sold in a highly desirable hardcover edition, with postcards of the original movie posters and an inlaid film strip. But that's really just a bonus. Fun, edgy and eclectic, Retrochine isn't old Chinese pop with a contemporary twist; it's music for the 21st century...
...work more to earn more." Key to that is a provision introduced in late 2007 that makes overtime more profitable to both companies and employers by waving taxes and social charges. The ironic result: bosses and workers now find they can have their 35-hour cake and eat 25% bonus time too. "Rather than increasing the set week to 37, 39, or 40 hours - and have to raise fixed salaries proportionally - it's more logical to stay at 35 hours, and go beyond or below it with affordable extra-time as demand surges or decreases," says Zenevre, who is also...
...What then? Like Hizballah, Hamas will declare itself victorious: not only will it have survived a direct assault by a far superior military force, but it will also have freed Gazans from Israeli tyranny. As an added bonus, any economic revival of Gaza would put money into Hamas' coffers. But Israel would gain some breathing space and force Hamas to prove it can actually govern and maintain stability in Gaza rather than heap blame entirely on Israel...