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...spending and crack down on bid rigging. "The construction industry is tight even for legitimate companies," says Takashi Kadokura, an independent researcher who specializes in the underground economy. "There's less money, and the pie is getting smaller-especially outside of major urban areas, where the yakuza still largely depend on traditional businesses...
...long-reaching consequences, was already under way. The London Co. had reorganized itself as the Virginia Co. of London in 1609, and over the next dozen years settlers and backers alike realized the colony could not be run as an overseas mining company or an armed camp. Success would depend on large numbers of people and the steady production of exportable goods. That meant the incentives for living in Jamestown had to be modified...
...He’s just a guy you can depend on, especially coming down the stretch. He’s a guy who just wants to be out there and he showed it today and threw a hell of a game...
...time. The show was filled with jokes, repeated jokes, diversionary jokes, and they worked about two-thirds of the time. Although Fitzwilliam’s jokes flew much more often than Steve’s did, a given joke’s success or failure did not necessarily depend on who delivered the punch line...
...Fein, speaking for the signatories, told TIME that Gonzales' planned testimony to Congress tomorrow, the text of which has been released by the Justice Department, was a "terrible disappointment" that left unanswered key questions on which his job may now depend. "Gonzales' testimony before the Judiciary Committee resorts to a truly Clintonesque defense of his own previous false statements," says Fein. "In fact," he says, "Gonzales' latest declarations really do call into question the forthrightness and honesty indispensable for America's chief law enforcement officer...