Word: embeddedness
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Even workers who receive small boosts in their base pay often see those raises wiped out by cuts in health and retirement benefits. The biggest benefit rollbacks are in heavy industries like steel, in which many union contracts in the U.S. give foreign firms a 10%-to-20% edge in...
The rest of Indonesia knows little?and seemingly couldn't care less?about the fear in Aceh. In the mass media, dangdut dancer Inul Daratista's gyrations, the 2004 elections and the improving economy all featured far ahead of news about Aceh until virtually the day the campaign began. At...
But terrorism analysts see the loose al-Qaeda networks as inherently adaptive to changing environments, and they are likely to have attempted to reorganize and further decentralize themselves to limit the damage wrought by U.S. capture of such kingpins Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Also, as much as the U.S. intelligence offensive...
There's another model China's leaders would do well to study. In 1985 a massive earthquake shook Mexico City. At the time, Mexico was, in effect, a one-party state, governed by a deeply corrupt and softly totalitarian regime whose leaders were beggaring the country. But within the bureaucracy...
DIED. DAVID BLOOM, 39, NBC News correspondent embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq, whose ebullience and tireless filing made him one of the war's best-known reporters; of a pulmonary embolism, which caused him to collapse 25 miles south of Baghdad. Hair blown by the...