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...happen with monotonous regularity. In August, there were seven major incidents, claiming 32 lives, in Guizhou alone. Labor activists estimate that for every reported death, there are perhaps three others that are never documented. Remoteness isolates local cadres from responsibility, and they know that a bad safety record could jettison their hopes of promotion. It's the rare case that comes into full light: a few weeks ago, an unusually zealous national media discovered that the deaths of 77 tin mine workers in Guangxi province had been hidden for weeks...
Last December Ericsson's top brass threw a 50th-birthday dinner for Marks at the tony Stallmastaregarden restaurant in Stockholm. While thanking his hosts and lauding their partnership, Marks launched into a bold new pitch: What Ericsson really ought to do, he said, was jettison all its mobile-phone operations. The next morning he made a formal proposal. Ten days later, Ericsson agreed to get out of the cell phone-manufacturing business. "It turns out that, increasingly, companies want not just a supplier but someone to run a part of their business for them," says Marks. "The Ericsson deal...
...likely to use birth control and thus more likely to put themselves at risk for STDs and unwanted pregnancies. What's more, the study concluded that as the number of virginity pledgers grows - roughly 2.5 million have already signed on - the practice could become too popular and teens could jettison their pledge cards like so many of yesterday's fashion fads. "Pledging works because it embeds kids in a community and makes them feel different," says author Bearman. "If they don't feel different anymore, or if they start pledging because people tell them to, it won't carry...
...betting here: Bush and Cheney don?t seem like the type of guys to jettison Rummy because he?s under a little fire - especially when they?re the ones who stranded him in enemy-held territory...
...setting out on a major cleanup campaign aimed at refurbishing his own image and that of his party. Both have long been tainted by allegations of cronyism, corruption and arrogance. For many observers both in and outside of the party, the Prime Minister will almost surely be forced to jettison some of his closest political allies. "He will do things that no other politician will do," says Sharir Samad, a senior UMNO member and frequent Mahathir critic...