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After years of nonstop improvement, German workers are loath to accept any reduction in their comfortable standard of living. They are the most pampered and protected in the industrial world. The average cost to employ a western German worker -- in pay plus such benefits as comprehensive health insurance | and generous pensions -- is about $23 an hour, compared with $15 for an American and $16 for a Japanese. That is for an average workweek of only 37.5 hours. Annual vacation is six weeks, plus at least 11 holidays a year. Educational subsidies and compulsory national service mean that most young people...
...other countries that still punish by death, the technology of execution is simpler. A handful favor the headsman's ax or the even more ancient practice of stoning to death. The rest employ either the rope or the bullet, both of which have fallen into near total disuse in the U.S. Outside the U.S., capital punishment in the 1990s is usually associated with underdevelopment or lack of democracy, usually both. The death penalty no longer exists in any European Community country. Most of the nations of the former Soviet bloc have abolished it, and the rest are considering doing...
...magazine tries to employ at least twointerns at all times, Kuttner said
Onyx has shown that difference can be presented in a constructive manner. I hope that other will employ similarly engaging and creative methods to carry on this tradition...
...concern is that more often than not they are turning to contrac- tors who don't meet the bottom line ofcommunity standards, who don't pay into health andwelfare, who don't pay into pension funds, whodon't have any apprentice programs in place, whodon't employ minorities and women," said Chuck J.Monahan, a representative of the InternationalBrotherhood of Electrical Workers...