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...Certainly, there's a lot to lose. The E.U. is the largest world market for clothing and textiles. But it's also a huge exporter: its 170,000 textile and clothing firms have annual revenues of more than ?200 billion and employ 2.6 million people. In France, Italy, Spain and especially the E.U.'s newest members in Central and Eastern Europe, the sector is a critical part of the economy. In Lithuania, for example, it accounts for as much as 8% of gross domestic product. "The authorities must either take whatever steps are appropriate to persuade the Chinese to limit...
...prevent friction between roommates, DormAid is a fully configurable service: students are able to choose how much and how often they clean—specifying dates, times, and specific rooms within the suites. In this way, one person’s decision to employ the service does not become a burden to that person’s roommate. Unlike a host of other products ranging from microfridges to water coolers, televisions, video, stereo, and gaming systems, the cleaning service DormAid provides can be easily bought by all or just by some members of a room—the cost split...
Moreover, the benefits to the larger Harvard community are notable. Roommates who choose not to employ the service will likely still benefit from the healthier, cleaner space provided by a fellow roommate’s purchase. Dorm Crew workers will face a lighter load when conducting their seasonal full cleans of rooms that, in the past, have often not been cleaned throughout the year. Not to mention, the regular maintenance of the dorms that DormAid provides ensures their quality for generations of occupants to come...
...dispersed in equal share to the 50 states and the rest goes to states more or less on the basis of population. As a result, the federal government spends $28.22 annually on a resident of Wyoming and $15.72 on a citizen of New York. Instead, Chertoff wants to employ risk analysis-like the kind used in a DHS draft report inadvertantly placed on a Hawaii state government web site last week-to determine how to deploy money according to the potential death toll and economic impact of various attacks on likely targets. If resources are spread too thin, they...
...predecessor, Sheik Abbas Musawi, in 1992, Nasrallah--a bearded, bespectacled Shi'ite cleric who trained in Najaf and Qum--has used Hizballah's resources to build a vast welfare network consisting of dozens of schools, 50 clinics and four hospitals as well as various businesses and farms that employ supporters...