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...sank to $149 billion. While the strong dollar has allowed the U.S. to max out its national credit card with purchases overseas, the currency imbalance is starting to cause pain in the U.S. "There are signs that the U.S. economy is struggling hard because of the strong dollar," says Harmen Lehment, a currency analyst at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. "The strong dollar is not in the interest of U.S. policy." That in part explains why the U.S. government has slapped tariffs on imported steel and offered a package of new subsidies to American farmers. In Europe, a strong...
...that. The fact that companies are transferring jobs to other countries is an omen." Though membership soared after German reunification in 1990, IG Metall's long-term trend is downward. Between 1991 and 1997, the union lost a million members and is now down to about 2.7 million. Harmen Lehment, an economist at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, found that the metalworking industry shed 300,000 jobs in the two years after the 1995 strike - a result, he believes, of the 4% wage hike that was agreed on. He estimates that for every 1% of increased wages, the economy...
...despite the official estimate of the Census Bureau that only 8.3 per cent of the adult population is functionally illiterate, the U.S. Office of Education agrees with Harmen's estimate...
...discrepaney between Harmen's calculation and the census figure stems from a difference in the definition of "functional illiterate...
Negotiations for a bus are underway with a number of companies. There are three problems in finding a company, Harmen explained. First, it must be decided whether HSA or the bus drivers should handle the money. HSA has also agreed not to interfere in MTA bus routes. Second, the bus is neither a charter service, since it runs every day, nor a normal shuttle point to point service. But the key problem is that HSA needs a large...