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...With everything so rosy, why does the Norwegian population of 4.6 million seem so eager to toss the center-right minority government of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik out of office in next week's election? Polls indicate a win for the opposition, a Red-Green alliance headed by Labor leader Jens Stoltenberg, who held the premiership for a short period in 2000-01. In the most recent opinion poll, published in the daily newspaper Aftenposten, Labor and its two support parties stand to win 52.2% (Labor: 34.6%) of the votes corresponding to 94 seats in the 169-seat Parliament...
...measure for many Israeli voters of the success or failure of the "disengagement." There's still, of course, the chance that Sharon will leave the Likud before its members kick him out. He'd then form a new party with some of the centrist parties and the Labor Party. That now looks a likely scenario, because the polls have Sharon a clear loser to Netanyahu within the Likud, while much more popular with the general public...
...West Side, the company went searching for contractors to build stores in the city. Wal-Mart was looking for someone who could lay down a solid foundation, both on site and in the surrounding West Side community of Austin, where high unemployment and high retail prices prevail and the labor supply, while plentiful, has a few dents in it. "The community aspect is not something Wal-Mart has typically had to deal with," says Garner. "Coming to a city and having to deal with ex-offenders, for instance. These aren't the sorts of problems that Wal-Mart typically deals...
...Mart also inserted itself into political races, to the unions' great irritation. The company donated money to the campaigns of black Congressmen Harold Ford, Charles Rangel and Albert Wynn. And after Wal-Mart gave a lunch for a few members of the Congressional Black Caucus, a small brouhaha between labor and the black caucus erupted. The Service Employees International Union fired off a letter accusing the Representatives of betraying labor. The head of the caucus, Democratic Congressman Mel Watt of North Carolina, bristled at the criticism. "I'm not defending them--I think a lot of their practices are abysmal...
...Germany," he says. "[CDU candidate] Angela Merkel and the others don't have any arguments for improving the situation." Peters even likes the "one-euro jobs" that Schr?der introduced last year as part of his controversial economic reforms. Intended to reintegrate long-term unemployed into the labor market, the jobs are structured so that employers pay only ?1 per hour, with the rest of the employee's income covered by unemployment benefits. Skeptics say the system encourages wage dumping but Peters, unemployed for a year until he landed a one-euro job, is an enthusiast. "It gives me a chance...