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...Hardy takes seriously. ?We took a stand on giving our people a really good meal. It nourishes them and gives them energy. It benefits them, and that benefits us,? she says. ?That's the definition of sustainability,? says John. ?We don't want to burn through our workers just because we know we can get more. In the end that doesn't make sense...
...urban warfare that erupted throughout the French Republic” happened in about 300 neighborhoods, which are mostly suburban. It is an appalling number; this is unquestionable. But how many more neighborhoods did not burn? Thirteen million people live in these suburban projects, which represent 4.5 million apartments or houses. As of Nov. 17, 597 persons have been arrested throughout the whole country. Among those, 108 are under the age of 18. France is not at “war” with its younger population from African origins. It clearly has serious problems of social integration and economic inequality...
What really scares Wall Street is the prospect of a Delphi strike. Goldman Sachs estimates that a Delphi work stoppage could shut down GM factories at a cost of $2 billion a month, causing GM to burn through its cash reserves at a deadly clip. "A strike could push them over the edge," says Steven Szakaly, an economist with the Center for Automotive Research. Unions representing Delphi workers have described the bankrupt company's latest offer--cutting wages from an average $27 an hour to $10.50 for production staff--as "insulting," and U.A.W. chief Ron Gettelfinger has described Delphi boss...
...sooner the better, considering the misery. The miners' slums have become cauldrons of drugs and prostitution in recent years. Sewage trickles through the unpaved streets. Houses are often built of nothing sturdier than flattened gasoline drums, and the surrounding terrain looks moonscaped from the slash-and-burn deforestation. Chvez has begun to organize the miners into some 3,000 government-backed cooperatives, which would be given legal access to any gold-mine reserves the government might take away from idle concessionaires, foreign or Venezuelan. But many miners remain skeptical, especially since the cooperative funds are moving as slowly through...