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...When you look at the gap in productivity between Britain and the rest of the world, too often it’s poor management of production processes and poor management of people that accounts for the gap,” Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt told the Financial Times...
...There’s just a huge gap between what’s fun here and what’s fun in Boston,” she says. And Thebaud thinks clubs focused on social life outside of Harvard will become a growing trend. “I think a lot of people at Harvard realize they’re living in a bubble,” she says. “People are afraid to take the T more than three stops down...
...industry, whose intricate schedules quickly plunged into chaos. Manufacturers' supply chains were the next to buckle. Honda, for example, halted production at its U.S. auto plants due to a shortage of parts, while suppliers to Sony and Dell were forced to ship critical components by air, an expensive stop-gap solution. Thousands of cars en route to the U.S. were among many Asian exports stuck idling offshore on cargo vessels or parked on Hong Kong and Singapore docks...
...idea or are neutral can be excused for their lack of enthusiasm. Overall, melding their economies with the west is expected to boost the incomes of people in the accession countries. But before reaching this promised land there will be higher unemployment and a growing gap between rich and poor as inflation hits basics like food and energy. And Europe's core economies may not prove quite the locomotive the new riders had hoped. Existing members are constrained by E.U. rules that curb their powers to lower taxes or run deficits even as growth slumps. And public expectations...
...Mawdsley's involvement with Burma begins like that of any gap-year activist. In 1996, inspired by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's book Freedom from Fear, he hooks up with a refugee group in Burma, where he teaches English. Soon he hungers for a direct confrontation with the regime. After his one-man protest in Rangoon is broken up (it consists of Mawdsley locking himself to a gate and shouting democratic slogans while blasting the film soundtrack to The Mission), he decides that he will return with the intent of going to prison. He shrugs off conventional activism...