Word: jim
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...Brussels could introduce legislation restricting ads during children's TV programs. In March, the E.C. will begin working with the food industry, educators, health experts and consumer organizations to launch a voluntary scheme promoting healthy eating and exercise. "In and of itself I doubt it will be enough,'' concedes Jim Murray, director general of the European Consumer Association. Also, one man's junk food is another man's job - expect to hear a lot in coming months about the health benefits of chips and chocolate. - By Joe Kirwin Chemical Brothers European Commission antitrust police fined three chemical firms...
...November, Rakuten won the right to create the first team added to Japan's professional baseball league in 50 years. "At first I didn't really understand the obsession that people like Rupert Murdoch seemed to have merging media with sports," he says. "But now I do." --By Jim Frederick/Tokyo...
...Security and, if they have to, would prefer to consider alternative ideas. Thomas, who thinks Social Security may need to be funded with revenues other than payroll contributions, hinted that to ensure the program's solvency, Bush should consider raising taxes--an option the President rejects. Chiming in, Representative Jim McCrery of Louisiana, head of the Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, suggested raising the ceiling on payroll taxes, which are currently levied only on the first $90,000 a person earns. The White House opposes that...
Senior Tutor Jim von der Heydt declined to comment by e-mail last night about the specific drain problem and when the dining hall would reopen...
...with ever more sophisticated strikes, disabling U.S. military vehicles with roadside bombs and then opening fire on stopped convoys from several positions. Their attacks have killed nine U.S. soldiers and scores of Iraqi national guardsmen in the past week. "By no means is this a safe city," says Captain Jim Pangelinan, who commands the Alpha Company of the Army's Task Force 1-14. "The insurgents' tactics have been more complex than what they've used previously here or elsewhere in the country." Pangelinan and his men have precious little time left to convince the estimated 1.8 million Mosul residents...