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...jobs on the chopping block in Europe - 10% of AB InBev's total European workforce - may be a mere ripple compared with the tidal wave of layoffs around the world in the past year. But the proposed cuts - about a third of which would be in Belgium - follow the company's announcement of profits of $1.55 billion in the third quarter of last year. This has angered the Belgian unions, which are taking a stand against what they see as an affront to the country's beer-making tradition. "This is the ugly face of capitalism," says Roger Van Vlasselaer...
...that move also saddled the company with huge debts that it is still struggling to pay off. Last year, it sold its entertainment business, including six SeaWorld parks and two Busch Gardens parks in the U.S. It has also shed its Irish and Scottish businesses and its Central European operations. (See a TIME video on the beer-biking craze in Amsterdam...
...often violent history - even TIME called it a "forlorn, hate-filled little Caribbean island" in 1965. On the eastern part of Hispaniola, you'll probably speak Spanish; in the west, it's more likely to be French or Creole, a division that's the result of centuries of European colonization and numerous power struggles. (Not to mention the decimation of Hispaniola's indigenous Taino people - who, of course, spoke none of those languages...
...raged in France in the 1790s, its colonial slaves in Hispaniola revolted; in 1804, they declared independence, and Haiti, which was named after the Taino word for "land of mountains," became the world's first sovereign black republic. The Dominican Republic wasn't established until 1844, after not just European rule but also 22 years of Haitian occupation. Strife between (as well as within) the neighbors, rooted in deep class, racial and cultural differences, was constant. Interference by foreign powers was often the norm. The Spanish took back the Dominican Republic in the early 1860s, and for periods during...
...With new industry reforms passed last summer in Brussels allowing all European wine producers to list the grape variety and vintage on their labels - the makers of low-end wines had previously only been able to call their products table wine in many countries - another wave of aggressively marketed French wine is sure to come. "This is just beginning," says Verdier. "Now that the new rules have come into effect, we are definitely going to pull out all the stops...