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...Under Bush, outsourcing should continue to fatten American corporate profits, but it also threatens to leach millions of jobs away from the U.S. service sector. The challenge for Bush is to ensure that American workers receive the higher education and vocational training they need, so that it's still worth paying them a premium. If he fails to do so, Asia will benefit...
Lurie’s comment elicited laughter rather than approval, and his amendment to fatten the allocation by $1,000 failed by a decisive margin...
...HoCo members challenged the initial $1,500 cap—very low considering that several HoCos received more than double that amount last spring—and pushed the Council to fatten the allocation...
...food shop, for instance, Uh Oh Oreo cookies, Nestle SweeTarts and Laffy Taffy candy (along with unprocessed foods) have occasionally been available to buy with Neopoints to feed virtual pets. Kids can also win points by watching cereal ads or movie trailers in the Disney theater. And they can fatten their Neopoints accounts by participating in marketing surveys. Universal Pictures recently ran a survey on the site to assess and build awareness of a forthcoming kids' movie, Two Brothers. Another pitch on the Neopets home page: click through to a website called Dealtime.com and compare such consumer electronics as Sharp...
...putting more than the 4 percent (initially 2 percent) payout pittance into University funding this year. Budget cuts in already-limited student services would be the last thing on administrators’ minds. And $107.5 million certainly would not be going to those whose only job is to further fatten the company’s coffers...