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...Three quarters of the HR leaders who responded to the Watson Wyatt survey expect their business to improve by the end of this year. There's some good news on the salary front, too. A new survey from Mercer, a global HR consulting firm, found that average base salary has actually risen over the past year by an average of 3%. Mercer's compensation survey covered about a million workers at some 1,000 firms across various industries. Among HR administrators at firms that have frozen salaries, 69% expect such freezes to end over the next 12 months...
...threshold necessary to win in one voting round. Still, some polls - and it is difficult to know which surveys are unbiased and reliable - show the race getting closer. Failure to reach that will send the top two vote getters to a second round in September, something the incumbent and front runner would probably like to avoid. "The question now is whether it is better for SBY to win with a slight margin in one round or a stronger mandate after two rounds," says Hamid. The answer to that question is just two weeks away...
Scanning the front pages of the Telegraph and rival newspapers he sells from his central London shop, Pankaj Mehta highlights another reason the expenses scandal hit Labour hardest. Reports of Conservative grandees submitting bills for the upkeep of mansions have reinforced the party's unfortunate image of entitlement and wealth, but the vision of Labour MPs subsidizing their lifestyles is more damaging still. New Labour defined itself as a party that encouraged wealth creation, that in the words of Peter Mandelson, Business Secretary and Brown's de facto deputy, was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich." But it still...
...death of the reconstruction official served notice that as the U.S. military begins to withdraw its 130,000 troops from Iraq, it is Hill's people--about 1,000 foreign-service officers and many more civilian contractors--who will step into the front line. And they will do so soon. An agreement with the Iraqi government requires all U.S. combat troops to leave Iraq's major cities and towns by the end of this month, and a national referendum planned for January will probably bring forward the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops to mid-2010. The U.S. military footprint...
...taxis. But at least once I found myself caught up in street demonstrations and clashes when trying to cross town. On June 18, when about 200,000 Iranians held a mourning march for those killed in clashes, I walked past three chador-clad girls who were holding posters in front of their faces in order to conceal their identities. One of the posters read, "My friends have been attacked and killed in the girls' dormitory." For most bystanders, this was the first time they learned that two of the five students killed by paramilitary Basij on June 14 were female...