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...have put Detroit's labor cost per car within a couple of hundred dollars of Toyota's and the other transplants'. That isn't enough, in the view of the task force, because consumers are willing to pay more for the foreign badges, and the Detroit Three need to earn more on domestic car sales to become viable for the long haul...
...Rookie first baseman Whitney Shaw leads the team with a .317 average, while four Harvard sluggers have already reached double digits in RBI. Junior center fielder Stephanie Krysiak, who is also a Crimson sports editor, has been on fire of late, hitting .526 last week to earn a place on the Ivy League Honor Roll...
...though they have lost their jobs and their work visas are no longer valid. "They will settle to be illegal," says Manolo Abella, a Bangkok-based expert on regional migration for the International Labor Organization. "Migrants workers often tolerate all sorts of abuse and deprivation just to stay and earn a wage, to avoid being sent home." Recent cases of undocumented workers getting pressganged into near slave-like conditions aboard fishing vessels in the river deltas of Southeast Asia have dramatized how vulnerable destitute migrants are to exploitation. Abella also warns that women migrants may fall into the sex trade...
...eggs - as high as 55% over the past four months compared with the same period last year. With college students struggling to pay tuition and young homeowners facing foreclosures, much has been made of the potential economic benefits of donation, a term that belies its lucrativeness: egg donors can earn about $5,000 per donation, with thousands more in premiums for eggs from women with exceptional looks, high SAT scores or an Ivy League diploma, and an in-demand ethnic background, such as Jewish or Asian. Proven donors whose eggs have already succeeded in making a baby are also often...
...means a lot [to start],” Shaw said. “Coming out, one of my biggest goals was to earn that position...