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There are other drawbacks to these employment measures, subsidized or not. The biggest is that only workers on fixed full-time employment contracts tend to be covered by the schemes. But they aren't necessarily the most vulnerable to job cuts in hard times; rather, it's the millions of part-time or temporary workers on more precarious labor contracts who are the first to lose their jobs. Numbers vary widely from country to country, but in Spain, for example, around one in three workers are in temporary employment. Unemployment there has soared to more than 14%, up from...
...problem, as anyone with a sweet tooth, an alcoholic relative or a maxed-out Visa card knows, is that old habits die hard. Temptation is strong. We are weak. We've got plenty of gurus, talk-show hosts and celebrity spokespeople badgering us to save energy, lose weight and live within our means, but we're still addicted to oil, junk food and debt. It's fair to ask whether we're even capable of changing...
...state wouldn't approve, which cost the city a one-time federal grant worth $354 million. Combined with sharp budget cutbacks, that leaves the transit authority with a $1.2 billion deficit. Without a healthy subway system, New York will be hard-pressed to grow, green or otherwise. "We have to assume that [transit] will eventually be funded," says Agarwalla. "Otherwise we'd have to plan for citywide shrinkage...
...message is a little mixed. Chores sound like character-building fun for men but like soul-deadening drudgery for women. Likewise, mothers are allowed to rhapsodize about their jobs, but hard-charging fathers who enjoy working round the clock are just selfish...
...brother-in-law Chang Sung Taek, the husband of Kim's younger sister Kim Kyong Hui. Chang, 63, oversees North Korea's State Security Agency, which includes the regime's notoriously brutal secret police. That position alone, analysts say, makes it unthinkable that Chang is anything other than a hard-liner. He climbed the ranks of the ruling party much more quickly than most; more than a decade ago, he began to join Kim on visits to vital military units, where he established close ties to senior commanders. Soon, Kim was sending him on key trips abroad...