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...grow or stagnates in a domestic market where more diners are eating in and a tight lending environment is making it difficult to open new locations. The company's partners in Mexico and the Middle East are financing the cost of the new restaurants, though P.F. Chang's will earn up-front territory fees and royalties from sales...
...state help with his $350 debt. Government agricultural officials hardly ever visit the village, he says, and he appears uninformed about the new initiatives that might help him. He is still dependent on the cotton crop he grows on his small farm, supplemented by the wages his sons can earn in part-time jobs. "Not much has changed," he laments. To make the new Green Revolution a reality, the global community still has much backbreaking farm work...
...original version of this article misstated that neurologists can earn three times as much as family physicians. In fact neurologists on average earn $220,000 a year, compared to $179,000 that the typical family doctor earns...
...very real sense, our TIME/Rockefeller Foundation poll shows that women have become dominant in our society. Women will soon constitute a majority of the workforce; they earn 57% of college degrees; they make 75% of buying decisions in the home. At the same time, the poll found that women are not terribly concerned with equality issues, nor are they patting themselves on the back for their pre-eminence--they are simply dealing with the often bewildering changes and uncertainty in our economy as breadwinners, spouses, mothers and daughters. It's not the anachronistic battle of the sexes anymore...
...health plans to get the most bang for the buck. And many employees were under the false assumption that their health benefits were mostly paid for by their employers. As the Washington Post's Ezra Klein recently pointed out, if health-insurance costs were lower, workers would almost certainly earn more in salary...