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...count, for the first time in a quarter-century. Employers in long-depressed areas like the northeast of England can't find enough qualified workers to fill the seats at call centers and other service-sector businesses. Labor markets are even getting tight in Italy, where jobless figures have long been in double digits. "From an intelligent secretary on up, you just can't find people," gripes Alessandro Ponti, head of Zetesis, an Internet services company in northern Italy. (Those laid-off workers in Silicon Valley might consider sending their résumés to Milan.) With more Europeans...
...beatings of supporters of both men. Museveni has yet to explain convincingly why he had a Besigye campaign official arrested two weeks ago. Tales of voter intimidation are legion. Both Museveni and Besigye continually ask their supporters to stay calm. But aggressive government security officers and the angry, jobless young men who jam Besigye's rallies keep nerves on edge. The election is March 12. But Dorothy Parker provided the lesson a long time ago, "Scratch a lover, and find...
...campaign on the uncanny economic times enough. When Bill and Al moved to D.C., the Federal budget deficit was $290 billion and the unemployment rate was 7.5 percent. The Office of Management and Budget is projecting a $211 billion surplus for 2000, the largest surplus ever, and the jobless rate was a mere four percent in June 2000. The administration is responsible for the creation of 22.2 million new jobs since 1993, the most created under any single White House duo. In February 2000, the United States entered the 107th consecutive month of economic expansion, making it the longest expansion...
...film's prime mover is Buck, played by its writer, Mike White, who was also a producer on the flop-d'estime TV show Freaks and Geeks. Buck is in his late 20s, but his development was arrested in preadolescence. Jobless, he lives with his mother, who dies in the opening sequence. He invites his old pal Chuck (Chris Weitz) to the funeral...
Even where things are great, they're not so good. The Netherlands in many respects is Europe's model economy, with an official unemployment rate of 4%--the lowest in the E.U. except for tiny Luxembourg, at 2.8%. Its boom helped the country cut joblessness more than 50% since the early 1990s. "We're working at capacity," says Joop Hartog, professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam. "We should be happy with that." An active labor policy bolsters the boom by offering tax credits for low earners, more child-care and after-school facilities to ease women's path...