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...widening defense scandal threatened to topple Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his ruling coalition government. By week's end, six Indian ministers, including Defense Minster George Fernandes, had left the government; an important coalition partner had withdrawn its support and all business in parliament had come to a halt. The scandal broke after a media company, Tehelka.com, screened videotape evidence of a widespread network of bribery, corruption and influence peddling among top politicians. In an attempt to quell the crisis, Vajpayee announced in a television address that he had set up a judicial enquiry and appealed to his political...
...bans, said Marc-Henri Cassagne, head of the organization that monitors animal health in France, "are abusive in their application to areas of France that have shown no sign of contagion." But even Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany warned that the slaughter-and-burn policy around Mayenne may not halt the outbreak. "There will be more cases," he said flatly...
While the economy appears close to imploding, the political machinery is grinding to a halt. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who plans to meet President Bush in Washington this week, has overseen a scandal-ridden administration. His political colleagues are maneuvering to replace him within a month. Bush, meanwhile, has promised to treat Japan less as a pupil and more as an equal, which sounds diplomatic but not perhaps helpful. "They're going to have to figure out for themselves what to do," Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told MONEY magazine...
This trend ground to a halt in the 1980s, as nonstandard employment relationships such as part-time work, temporary work and contract work proliferated. Employers pursue these arrangements primarily because they cut labor costs and permit the circumvention of state and federal labor laws. Of course, reducing labor costs with the same number of workers necessarily means lower wages. In a recently published study, Arne Kalleberg, Ken Hudson and I show that nonstandard employment arrangements (particularly temporary work and contract work) reduce workers' pay, access to benefits and job security...
...body uncoiling like a python's. Fifi dances to be watched and when she feels a pair of approving eyes on her, she swings her body ever so slowly, then gyrates faster and faster until she's whirling like an oversexed dervish. When she finally tapers to a halt, she looks up and hopes those eyes are still on her. If they are, she starts grinding her hips again, faster and faster until she's moving quicker than the boom-boom-boom of the electronic drums. If he's stopped looking, she sways to a stop. And pouts those bubble...