Word: burdenered
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...payroll, it could also end up exacerbating its other major problem, crippling employee retirement costs. John Murphy, the auto analyst for Merrill Lynch, warned in a note to investors, "The accelerated retirements at GM may result in a lower active headcount, but further exacerbates GM's already heavy burden of 2.5 retirees to active workers. Furthermore, GM continues to structurally shrink as it loses market share in the U.S., which means that a smaller company is supporting more retirees. Until GM stabilizes market share, rationalizes capacity at every point in the value chain, and invests heavily in product, its restructuring...
...momentary position relative to the jet stream can wreak havoc on weather forecasts. “Variability of a few hundred miles can make the difference between a storm bringing rain to a region and a storm bringing snow,” said Brian F. Farrell, the Burden professor of meteorology. That makes long-term forecasting particularly tricky. “You can’t predict more than a week or two at a time,” Farrell said. According to Farrell, the jet stream “wanders on week-long, or monthly time scales...
...Berg believes the burden of proof has risen for the government. "It gives [the defense] hope because their entire defense is that (a) they were unaware of any criminal behavior, and (b) the company really wasn't in financial trouble. Now the jury is going to have to believe they knew of all the elements of the crimes alleged against them," says Berg...
...giving it directly to those who need it most for their books,” said Amadi P. Anene ’08, a UC representative who sponsored the act. STOP Campaign Co-Director Chaz M. Beasley ’08 said that lower-income students face a double burden of high textbooks costs—they may need to avoid courses with particularly expensive course literature, and when those courses are required, they often must rely on library reserves or fellow classmates for course materials.“We want to make sure, above all, that those costs don?...
...Friday night, the Prime Minister met with university rectors, many of whom have urged him to retract the law. Villepin signaled little willingness to do so, but there were signs that the government may be ready to beef up job protection in other ways, possibly by increasing the tax burden on employers who purposely use short-term contracts for revolving-door workers, and stiffening the laws regulating the use of internships. Yet withdrawing the law is no easy matter: the only legislative course would be a humiliating request to Villepin's own party to approve new legislation trumping...