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...Free University of Berlin. "It is less able to deal with the segment of the market that doesn't fit that. The fact that companies are transferring jobs to other countries is an omen." Though membership soared after German reunification in 1990, IG Metall's long-term trend is downward. Between 1991 and 1997, the union lost a million members and is now down to about 2.7 million. Harmen Lehment, an economist at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, found that the metalworking industry shed 300,000 jobs in the two years after the 1995 strike - a result, he believes...
...confidence, you’ll find no shortage of them. There will always be something you could have done better, and there will always be people who are doing better. You can find things wrong in anything you do. It’s just too easy to hit that downward spiral, especially here, where when you look around you, everyone else seems to be staying afloat...
...Breaking the downward cycle requires a restatement of the basic reciprocal commitments - renouncing violence and ending the occupation. Israel believes the past 18 months have proved that Arafat never renounced violence, and they're unlikely ever to trust him again. But the Palestinians believe that Sharon has never had any intention of ending the occupation, which would involve negotiating a withdrawal to something close to Israel's pre-1967 borders - positions he's always fiercely opposed...
...worn under his clothing, to the stimulator in his chest, which amplifies it and passes it along to the appropriate muscles in his arm and hand. In response, the muscles contract and his left hand closes. When he wants to release the glass, he moves his right shoulder downward and his left hand opens...
...University Press; 180 pages; $23) doesn't directly address terrorism's latest face, as it was written before 9/11. But for newcomers to the subject, Lewis' brisk explication of the tense dynamic between Islam and the West offers a historical case for what he calls the Muslim world's "downward spiral of hate and spite, rage and self-pity, poverty and oppression...