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...after 2006 is still to be decided. Under such abstemious rules, enlargement is certain to produce losers as well as winners. Currently protected industries like steel, food and telecoms will suffer as national tariffs and subsidies are cut, while small companies may find themselves becoming part of the food chain for foreign invaders - or going bust because they can't afford E.U. safety and environmental standards. Among the biggest losers will be farmers, who have become enlargement's most vocal opponents. They know that products from existing members, heavily subsidized by the Common Agricultural Policy, will swamp them once trade...
...steps facing the Yard will become a staging area for the construction, and will be cordoned off by chain link fencing and green netting like that which is currently covering parts of the side of the library...
DIED. WILLIAM ROSENBERG, 86, founder of America's favorite guilty pleasure, Dunkin' Donuts; in Mashpee, Mass. After World War II, he began serving coffee and pastries to factory workers from a mobile canteen. The business grew into the world's largest baked-goods and coffee chain, with 5,000 outlets and more than 50 varieties of doughnuts...
DIED. JOAN LITTLEWOOD, 87, pioneering director; in London. A 5-ft. 2-in., chain-smoking agent provocateur, Littlewood staged radical theater from her Theatre Workshop in London's East End. She had hoped her plays would attract the working class, but it was chichi West Enders who became her loyal audience for such works as Brendan Behan's The Hostage and the antiwar satire Oh What a Lovely...
...Warehouse Union and port employers resumed contract talks with the help of a federal mediator, little progress was evident. The impasse was costing businesses an estimated $2 billion a day, and threatened an already slumping U.S. economy that depends more than ever on a just-in-time supply chain. The West Coast docks support an estimated 4 million jobs across the U.S. In Fremont, Calif., an auto assembly plant owned jointly by GM and Toyota had to stop production for lack of engines and transmissions, idling 5,100 workers. Such retailers as the Gap, Target and Wal-Mart, which expect...