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Nice Work if You Can Get It Peter Gumbel's article on increasing employment problems across Western Europe [Oct. 3] perfectly highlighted the plight of a bleak, stagnant, not so efficient European labor market. The reasons lie in outdated and wrongheaded policies implemented by local governments that can't cope with the fast and ever changing rules of the marketplace. In addition, there seems to be an increasing number of young people who are immature, not motivated enough or simply not ready to compete and find a decent job. Discouraged, they rely on poorly paid, insecure jobs or, even worse...
...time Jim Nantz or Tim Brando or Greg Gumbel or John Saunders delivers his first statement to a network television audience of millions, we are greeted with the above statement’s peculiar obverse...
...design sportswear. But Nike is aggressively challenging Adidas on its home turf of European soccer. It has signed up more than 40 clubs, including Manchester United and Barcelona. With its move to acquire Reebok, Adidas hopes to show that the athletic shoe is on the other foot. - By Peter Gumbel Oiling Russia's Markets Foreign and Russian traders experienced a bout of seemingly rational exuberance last week, as the long-stagnant Russian stock market started climbing steadily. The benchmark Russian Trading System (RTS) and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) indexes rose from 782.4 and 702.3 respectively last Monday...
...waiting in the wings. Boosted by a stock-market boom and a thriving economy, several Icelandic companies are also on the acquisition trail overseas, including financial institution Kaupthing and food company Bakkavör. It's not just the springs that are hot in Iceland, it seems. - By Peter Gumbel Stirring Up The Risk Pool Triathletes are usually known for taking a risk or two. After all, swimming, biking and running - with hardly a breather in between - doesn't come without potential danger. So why will more than 100 of these risk takers in next week's VisitScotland Adventure...
...governments, but Fischer Boel insisted there's no alternative. Any failure to act, she said, "would mean a slow and painful death for the European sugar sector." One consolation: European confectionery and biscuitmakers say the new prices will make them more competitive. How sweet it is. - By Peter Gumbel Getting Posh In Prague Thanks to the likes of Easyjet and Sky Europe, the flow of budget-conscious tourists into Central and Eastern Europe is becoming a flood: visitors to Budapest are up 37% during the first quarter of 2005; international arrivals in Warsaw in March were...