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...those 25 and under is a steep 23% nationwide, and rises as high as 50% in some suburbs. Borloo's push for social improvements has won breathing space with the French public for his other - potentially more controversial - reforms. Despite initial grumbling from unions, he introduced closer monitoring of dole recipients to identify possible cheats, and rationalized the state employment agency to offer more positions to job seekers faster. Last summer he even piloted a work contract, designed to encourage small companies to take on staff by allowing them to fire new workers within two years without risking legal reprisals...
...young man in a hurry. Rumsfeld ran for Congress in 1962 and arrived in Washington at the age of 30, during President Kennedy's last year in office. He was marqueed from the start, one of several Young Turks in the House that included Bob Dole, Gerald Ford and George Herbert Walker Bush. Rumsfeld organized his pals into an informal club and served four terms before leaping to the Nixon White House. There he rose through various mid-level posts and became, within four years, NATO ambassador. He was always unconventional; even in the depths of that partisan...
What does the Senate bill do? It bars lobbyists from buying gifts and meals for legislators, but it leaves a big loophole: firms and organizations represented by those lobbyists may still dole out freebies. Privately funded trips would still be allowed if lawmakers get prior approval from the ethics committee. The bill would bar retiring legislators and senior aides from lobbying Congress for two years. It would also require lobbyists to file more frequent, more detailed reports on their activities, which would be posted...
...deliver their judgment late this week on the legality of de Villepin's controversial law-which seeks to reduce chronic youth unemployment levels of over 20% by allowing businesses to fire workers aged 26 and under after less than two years on the job without having to dole out hefty severance pay. Detractors argue that the law ignores French constitutional guarantees of equal rights and treatment for all citizens - a general principle some claim would be violated if labor protection other workers enjoy were denied to younger employees...
Dubai certainly isn't short on big names coming to its aid. Power brokers Bill Clinton and Bob Dole (whose spouse is a North Carolina Senator), along with Madeleine Albright's lobbying shop, have advised DP World. Clinton has described the U.A.E. as a model Middle East government and in 2002 gave two speeches in Dubai, pulling in $450,000. Nor is the Bush Administration unfamiliar with DP World. Critics grouse that Treasury Secretary John Snow's former company, transportation giant CSX, sold its international port operations to DP World in 2004, for $1.15 billion. Dubai also works with...