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When corporations can shirk their responsibilities, and can cut and run to the cheapest workforce, nations become desperate to retain the jobs they can, whatever the social cost. For these workers, "free trade" is anything but that. They are denied their freedoms--freedoms of speech and of association--and denied their basic human rights by the same trade that enriches the people behind...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, | Title: No Globalization Without Representation | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...Nights and weekends are still cheapest. But in most markets, the night rate has been moved back to 7 p.m. from 5 p.m. at the location where the call originates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Deal | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Novatel, whose Minstrel line of wireless modems is popular with Palm users, has just begun shipping the Merlin, which works on most PC laptops, to retail stores. The company says that at $279, it is the cheapest wireless modem around (I haven't found a cheaper one--others tend to cost $400 and up). Another plus: the Merlin draws roughly one tenth the power of a typical laptop modem. That's good news for road warriors and anyone else trying to conserve their laptop's battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting the Cord | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...willing--even eager--to advance you cash up to the full amount of that equity. And sometimes even more. Like millions of other homeowners who have taken up the offer, you can spend the money any way you want and take years to repay--at some of the cheapest interest rates you'll ever find, even after the Federal Reserve's latest hikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House-Rich | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...often the books wouldn't. The Coop always make an effort to provide the correct number of books to students at the cheapest prices, but sometimes the system doesn't work. "It's an added expense for the store if we are not efficient on bringing in the correct number of books to the store," Jeremiah P. Murphy '73, the president of The Coop, told me. Murphy said the costs, which are "due to the uniqueness of the Harvard shopping period," are built into the margin on the book. That means when a course has a dramatically higher enrollment than...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Shopping Period Reconsidered | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

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