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...business enterprises, it is for the public," and later called on Keidanren, Japan's leading business federation, to raise wages. But Keidanren head Fujio Mitarai has rebuffed those calls, lobbying the government instead to lower corporate tax and raise the consumption tax, shifting more of the financial burden to ordinary workers. "In his heart Abe feels consideration for households," says Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the nearly 7-million-strong Japanese Trade Union Confederation. "Yet he's pushing reforms for [the benefit of] business. People are disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Shinzo Abe Find His Way? | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...possible to treat diabetes effectively? And a detailed ethnic breakdown isn't just essential to understanding what citizens need now - it's also the only way to predict what they will need in the future. "Do you want to let diversity take its own course and potentially become a burden?" says Phillips. "Or do you want to manage it, be proactive, and turn it into a benefit? A smart society is going to try to turn it into a benefit. But that society has to know exactly what it's dealing with and, at the moment, we just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Faces of Europe | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

Instead, the College should continue its policy of salutary neglect toward extracurricular activities and recognize that the “tendency on the part of many students to regard their extracurricular life as separate from their academic experience” is in fact a boon, not a burden...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Salutary Separation | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...don’t think it’s a good idea to pay for this initiative by cutting the benefits of others, or in some cases the same students,” he added. In addition, universities would have to “pick up more of a burden,” especially for low-income students whose grants may be reduced due to the redistribution of financial aid funds and programs, Toiv said. Martha E.H. Holler, the managing director of corporate communications at the student-loan provider company Sallie Mae, said...

Author: By Marie C. Kodama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pell Increase May Cut Other Aid | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

...interest-free loan of 10,000 euros, as well as to subsidize 500,000 starting jobs for citizens in that age bracket. Royal avoided any concrete suggestion that new taxes would be needed to pay for those new rights. She did say she wanted to shift the tax burden "from labor to capital." Beyond that, the only means proffered to finance these programs was that old political chestnut, cutting out waste - that and somehow formenting "a rising spiral of convergent energies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: S?gol?ne's New Tack: a Hard Left | 2/12/2007 | See Source »

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