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...peoples offer, they have also increased competition dramatically. International trade, previously heavily regulated and dominated by informal agreements and long-term relationships, has opened to fierce worldwide competition. The low wages and social security costs combined with a hard-working workforce in the emerging markets have initiated a somewhat brutal fight for survival in business. Companies undertook massive restructuring and layoffs in order to compete. Working hours have increased in the United States, and unemployment has increased in Europe while the standard of living has remained unchanged...
...military sentiment before President Clinton visits Japan later this month. "If Okinawans start demonstrating when Clinton is here like they did in October, this could backfire in Hashimoto's face," TIME correspondent Irene M. Kunii says. More than one million people demonstrated in October in response to the brutal rape of a 12-year-old Japanese schoolgirl by three U.S. servicement. Okinawans have historically harbored deep resentments toward the U.S. military for their bloody invasion of the island in World War II and the ensuing occupation. The invasion killed at least 80,000 Japanese troops and 130,000 civilians...
...have to say that I was pessimistic from the start. Any sensible analysis of the case has to start with a brutal but undeniable fact: people eat pigeons...
...simply reporting historical fact: nothing was ruled out in Dirty Soccer as played at the Hale H. Cook school in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Golden Age of Dirty Soccer. There is such a thing as brutal competition within limits (e.g., the campaign for the Republican nomination) and such a thing as all-out war (e.g., the endgame in the battle between Charles and Diana...
...access to the Internet each month, or unlimited access for $19.95 a month, on its newly announced Worldnet access service. Suddenly, the right flat rate and the right number of phone lines were in the same place, and the entire Internet-service industry seemed on the verge of a brutal shake-out. At week's end AOL's share price dropped 15%, from 53 7/8 to 45 3/4, while the stock of Netcom Online Communications, a leading provider of direct Internet access, fell more than 13%, from 28 1/4 to 24 1/2. Jacques Gauchey, a new-media consultant...