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...with the availability of jobs. Unfortunately, Europeans who start their own businesses are crushed by corporate and other taxes. If they can hire support staff, these small one- or two-person businesses in many cases have to fund benefits that the employers themselves do not have: sick leave, paid four-week vacations, holidays, maternity leave, a 35-hour workweek and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving. Somehow governments and voters...
RULED NEGLIGENT. THE PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY, which owned and operated the World Trade Center; in the 1993 truck-bomb explosion in the building's underground garage that killed six and injured 1,000; after a long-awaited four-week trial, in a victory that clears the way for damage suits for victims of the attack; in New York City. Plaintiffs' attorneys, seeking a total of up to $1.8 billion, said the agency ignored warnings from its own experts of such an attack...
...with the availability of jobs. Unfortunately, Europeans who start their own businesses are crushed by corporate and other taxes. If they can hire support staff, these small one- or two-person businesses in many cases have to fund benefits that the employers themselves do not have: sick leave, paid four-week vacations, holidays, maternity leave, a 35-hour work week and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving. Somehow governments...
...dishes she prepares at Arcadia in New York City combine a sense of surprise with the comfortable recollection of the familiar. Rosenzweig and her partner Ken Aretsky opened this snug, intimate restaurant with its bosky seasonal mural just a year ago, and it soon had a two- to four-week waiting list for peak-hour reservations. She has a special talent for lamb and duck dishes. Other outstanding offerings include corn cakes with caviar and crème fraîche, chimney-smoked lobster, quail with beet sauce, warm apple timbale with caramel sauce and chocolate bread pudding...
...factory town. Instead, the unlikely site of Daniel's work and play was Hofu (pop. 120,000), a city 56 miles southwest of Hiroshima in Japan. Daniel, along with 47 other Americans who work for the U.S. subsidiary of Mazda, the third largest Japanese automaker, was finishing up a four-week stint at the firm's Hofu assembly plant. Their goal: to learn how to build cars the Japanese way. Said Daniel, a Michigan native whose father and grandfather worked for General Motors: "I'm the first member of my family to go foreign...