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...Daily wage earned by the lowest paid of these janitors, illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe, Central America and Asia...
...prosperity extends far beyond Colombo's busy shopping malls and car showrooms, boosted in part by the resumption of internal trade with the Tamil-dominated northern and eastern areas of the country, isolated for years by a government-imposed embargo. Before the peace process began, Wickremesinghe says, "we were a market of 15 million. Now we are a market of 19 million." In Dambulla, a trading town in the center of Sri Lanka, vegetable sellers now do brisk business with Jaffna, the chief city in the Tamil north: these days, large onions and pineapples are sent up north, while trucks...
That's just one sign of Pischetsrieder's focus on cost cutting. VW has been considered inefficient, largely because its labor costs in Germany, where it runs 10 production locations, are some of the highest in the industry. VW has tried to offset the cost by moving production to eastern Germany, where it qualifies for government aid and wages are lower, and further east to countries like Slovakia. Pischetsrieder - known as a "gear-head" with a good grasp of finance and marketing - is implementing a plan to save $3.4 billion over the next five years. He wants to cut costs...
...mask, pull up the blanket and empty your mind. Whether you manage five minutes or 50, a session will help reduce stress and get you to your destination in a better mood. Everyone will think you're snoozing but you're actually meditating on these selected insights from Eastern spiritual sources, past and present. (And if all else fails, you could always ask for another double whiskey...
...Harvard women’s tennis team performed admirably at the ITA Eastern Women’s Regional Championship—the second of three national championship events for college tennis—but its captains were noticeably missing from the helm...