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...left because he couldn't create enough of them. Owner of a stoneware company in Warsaw, he found that increasingly his clients were not paying their bills. "I couldn't plan an expansion," Wasilewski recalls. "I had the money, but only on paper." Around the same time, a contract came up to apply interior cladding to a high-rise at London's Canary Wharf. He took it. Wasilewski then moved his family to Britain and, in 2004, invested in two small stoneware companies. He has not looked back. Turnover has doubled in the past three years. Instead of struggling...
...member of the athletic administration said that Nichols Family Director of Athletics Bob Scalise made the final decision not to renew Sullivan’s contract, which is set to expire after this season. The Crimson finished 12-16 overall and 5-9 in league play this year...
...member of the athletic administration said that Nichols Family Director of Athletics Bob Scalise made the final decision not to renew Sullivan’s contract, which was set to expire after this season. The Crimson finished 12-16 overall and 5-9 in league play this year...
...Efficient, capable and well paid, Haruko (played by the 33-year-old actress Ryoko Shinohara) is a contract worker who has been dispatched to a struggling Tokyo food-manufacturing company. Efficient and deadly capable, she is totally lacking in interpersonal skills - which in Japan, even more than in other countries, are at least as important as actually being able to do the job. The comedy in Haken - which at times resembles a Japanese version of The Office, minus the meanness - comes from Haruko's clashes with her often incompetent full-time colleagues (one of whom is ironically played by Koutaro...
...trouble is, few temps can actually earn a living wage. Almost 40% of contract workers receive salaries that are less than 80% of a full-time wage, contrary to government guidelines. Haruko may command top yen on TV, but good luck jetting to Madrid on your off days when you make less than $11,000 a year, as 34% of male and 55% of female part-timers do. And even putting salary concerns aside, many of those part-timers would still opt for full-time employment if they could. Despite the damage it sustained during the lost decade...