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Rolls-Royce will start hand-building the cars at its south England plant in September, with the first deliveries scheduled to go out in early January. The company says it expects to sell about 2,000 Ghosts annually, although Purves says that may not happen until after the recession is over. "It's not at all a frothy environment [right now]," he admits. But analysts say the sales figure is a realistic goal. John Wormald, managing partner of the British automotive consultant Autopolis, says sales of the Ghost could eventually reach 5,000 a year...
...terrorism suspects in the six years after 9/11, it still lacks the ability to consistently extract information from them. "A small professional cadre of interrogators, which can be brought in by any agency that needs their services, would be a good idea," says Carl Ford, an ex-CIA hand who headed the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research...
...there are some caveats to the scheme's success. First, it's primarily aimed at individuals who already have jobs or unemployed or retired people who yearn to try their hand at a service they think might find a market. Because of that, new companies created by auto-entrepreneurs start out as single-person operations and usually as part-time or moonlighting ventures. If business starts booming, neophyte owners seeking to expand by taking on employees have to register under the normal labor regime, which means assuming the taxes and salary-linked social charges that prove so dissuasive to many...
...going to mitigate the country's economic decline of 3% this year. Perhaps the movement's biggest impact will be to reverse long-held negative attitudes in France about starting a small business. "There are a lot more people out there in France who would love to try their hand at running a business and selling a service they can provide but haven't even tried because the process and costs of doing that have been so deterring," says Aurore Longuet, a spokeswoman for the Economy Ministry's small- and medium-size business secretariat. "What we're saying to them...
...walked along a picturesque marble boardwalk at the ocean’s edge, I decided to take a discreet picture of the sea. Within thirty seconds of removing my camera from my backpack, I felt a strong hand on my shoulder. It spun me around so that I was face to face with an angry military officer, who had a large gun slung across his shoulder. He promptly confiscated my camera and questioned me as to what possible reason I could have for being in the country and taking pictures. The soldier even suggested at one point that I could...