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...Union leaders say increased labor activism isn't the reason Indonesia's clothing and shoe sectors are fading. Dita Indah Sari, chairperson of the Front Nasional Perjuangan Buruh Indonesia union says that a poor global economy, excess capacity in industries like textiles, and security concerns are causing companies to scale back. "If the government can't solve the political problems, don't look for a social group to blame," she says...
Such course work varies in difficulty, but by definition it all should have been mastered by 12th grade. That means we pay twice to teach some people the rudiments. Nothing angers conservatives more than fiscal excess on behalf of the slothful, which is how they see remediation; nixing the classes has become a pet issue for some. In 1999 New York Republicans successfully pushed the City University of New York to curtail what had become vast remedial programs...
Will our current obsession with shared open spaces and lush private ones look silly years from now? Will future owners rip out these projects, shaking their heads at our excess ("A second oven! What were these people thinking?")? Bet on it. Economic and demographic changes inevitably shape the way we live and the homes we live in. The rapidly increasing number of people age 60 and older, for instance, is already dictating changes in bathroom design and raising other livability issues...
Seereeram contacted Dominica's government after seeing documents related to the bonds. According to the terms of the deal, outlined in documents obtained by Time, the airport was to be financed in part by bonds to be secured by a $2.8 million "sinking fund," or money loaned in excess of construction needs and managed by Citibank. But instead of investing the sinking fund elsewhere, the documents show, Citibank used the fund to buy up the airport bonds and convert them into a different kind of bond that reaped a higher premium, without telling the borrower...
Homemade espresso ice cream situated on a slab of dense chocolate mousse ($9) rounded out the meal, pushing it over the top into blissed-out gustatory excess...