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...that any increase in pension payments is offset by a fall in unemployment benefits. The government has made some genuinely popular moves beyond putting more police on the streets. In September, it passed a 3% cut in income tax, which only about half of French households earn enough to pay. But joy was muted - the announcement was swiftly followed by rises in local taxes and taxes on diesel fuel and cigarettes. "People feel it's just a game: what the government gives with one hand, it takes with the other," says Elie Cohen, an economist and professor at Sciences...
...we’d go to some party.” Yet, despite its infectious central hook, the single hasn’t caught on with audiences the way “Last Nite” did last year. It’s evident that Room On Fire will earn the band few fans, and certainly won’t convert any non-believers, a recipe for less than spectacular sales. The album’s inevitably underwhelming release should once again underscore this crucial point: rock really is dead. But for serious this time...
...were obviously able to overcome that last week,” Murphy said. But we’ve got to make them earn everything they get, to keep the big runs to an absolute minimum...
Dorm Crew should raise its pay in order to maintain a larger staff. The existence of a high-paying Dorm Crew provides interested students with an opportunity to earn money while getting exercise. And a sense of self-sufficiency is lost when we rely on the outside to do our dirty work...
...meet payroll, says Wang Taiyuan, a police officer and professor at the Public Security University in Beijing, China's West Point for cops. Morale is suffering. On newpolice.net, one disgruntled cop laments: "Police work harder than donkeys, eat worse than pigs, rise earlier than roosters, work later than whores, earn less than farmers...