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...very time-consuming." As he speaks, the power cuts out and a private generator kicks in, raising the day's power costs. "Buyers come to developing countries to save," sighs Srinivasan. "But in the conditions we work under, our margins are tightly squeezed." So his firm controls costs in shrewd though legal ways: "Overtime pay is twice the regular pay. To cut costs, we don't make workers put in extra hours - we just employ more people...
...chances of building lasting partnerships with factories. "We thought monitoring was the answer, but we've learned the hard way that it isn't," Gap's then CEO Paul Pressler conceded in 2005. "Almost no factory is in compliance with our standards." As a result, the goal for many firms is no longer perfection, but more nuanced policies and a gradual raising of standards. Traditionally, Gap pulled out of factories in which it discovered child labor. Two years ago, it revised that policy. Now, if children are found in factories producing Gap clothes, the firm asks factory managers to remove...
...Schwartz's ascension comes at a critical time for the Air Force. Beyond loose nukes, it has been dealing with fallout from its decision to award a $35 billion next-generation aerial tanker contract to a firm partly owned by a European consortium instead of the Boeing Co. That choice has generated howls from Capitol Hill, and the Government Accountability Office will rule on the propriety of that award later this month. Gates has been upset over the Air Force's failure to provide more unmanned drones to funnel additional intelligence to the U.S. troops now fighting in Afghanistan...
...Mahmudiya, the largest city in the area, stuck through five days of heavy fighting that killed five Iraqi soldiers and 25 insurgents. Ali threw approximately 1,000 Iraqi soldiers into the battle, devised and directed their missions to clear the city, and visited the battlefronts repeatedly to provide firm leadership presence. "This was Shi'a soldiers fighting Shi'a militias, and the soldiers never wavered," says General Ali. Colonel Zemp says that while the U.S. Army provided intelligence, air support, and 150 reinforcement troops, the Iraqi Army spearheaded the effort. "The battle was General Ali's crowning achievement...
...What was in 2005 a general Danish consensus to stand firm is crumbling as the stakes rise. Margrethe Vestager, leader of the opposition Social Liberal Party, said Denmark should look towards "dialogue rather than conflict." Referring to "the government's xenophobic agenda," Holger K. Nielsen of the Socialist People's Party said, "Things have gotten out of control. We must discuss whether we have to constantly get involved in places where we are most hated...