Word: extender
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...that the country will face an unprecedented shortage of workers?rendering much of society's current fears about unemployment moot. Japan will have no choice but to move every able body it can to the most competitive and productive industries possible. Furthermore, Japan may have to relax immigration restrictions, extend the retirement age beyond 60 and bring women into the workforce more aggressively, just to meet its labor needs...
...really thought they might extend me for a year,” she says. “Of course I’m hurt by it but they are the boss of this organization and they had a decision to make...
Freshman phenom Julie Chu scored twice for the Crimson, including a shorthanded tally to extend the lead to 5-0. While killing a penalty midway through the third, junior defenseman and captain Angela Ruggiero skated end to end and fired a shot right on. Chu banged home the rebound for her second goal of the night and seventh of the season...
American investigators are trying to persuade Musharraf to let them expand their bin Laden search into the tribal belt, but the Pakistanis have "a different agenda," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad. "The Americans' aim, obviously, is to get the bad guys." The Pakistani strategy is to extend the government's influence in these lawless areas by winning over the local chieftains, a kind of mini--nation building. That's why Musharraf is wary of mishaps like the one in which two U.S. missiles recently strayed inside the Pakistani border and landed a few hundred yards from a tribal militia...
...threat will come in December, when the Ambani family's Reliance Infocomm will launch a mobile phone service nationwide aimed at customers who need to make calls only in a limited area, such as one city. Based on regulations that allow fixed-line providers to use wireless technology to extend their networks without laying cable, Reliance is expected to be able to undercut the fees charged by incumbents. "We are very proud that wherever Reliance enters, we have dropped prices," says company chairman Mukesh Ambani...