Word: laboral
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wildlife sanctuaries are now at capacity. (Besides, it costs $15,000 a year to care for a chimp at a sanctuary, a price Chimparty is unwilling to pay.) So the chimps either continue their subterranean existence or are sold into lives of inflicted disease in biomedical research, lives of labor in roadside menageries and exotic animal “attractions,” or lives of exile from nature in the exotic pet trade...
...January over coffee at their first face-to-face meeting. When Rattner outlined the draconian marching orders Geithner had given him to try to save General Motors and Chrysler, Bloom paused and laid down a marker. He saw the job as a potential capstone in a career spent championing labor interests during years of industrial restructuring. He understood that the situation called for tough medicine for autoworkers. But I also want you to know, Bloom said, that I've dedicated my life to preserving as many American jobs as possible. Rattner, the titan of investment banking, said he wanted...
...America has always debated the primary source of its wealth: capital or labor. And in a way that happens more frequently in literature than in life, Rattner and Bloom are neatly drawn avatars for the opposing sides of that argument. As such, they make a complementary team to resuscitate the moribund automakers. Out of money and out of options, GM and Chrysler can be saved from complete dissolution only by a government effort to reconcile management, workers and creditors to a much-diminished future. If Rattner and Bloom can find common ground, perhaps those dueling interests...
...partnership with Fiat and GM 60 days to avoid bankruptcy court. Rattner will have to browbeat intransigent bondholders. Bloom will have to force major benefit cuts on the unions. And both will have to sell management on a radical reordering of their companies, one in which both capital and labor take a serious hit in order to keep the machine running...
...cites a range of problems and obstacles that are keeping investors on the sidelines while funding remains sorely needed for the building of new ports, power plants and roads across this huge nation. "Lots of projects were showcased but very few have been realized because of classic issues like labor laws and the overall investment climate," explains Sandiaga Uno, CEO of Saratoga Capital, a venture capital firm. "Very basic issues like the bureaucracy and land availability have stifled infrastructure efforts...