Word: labors
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...Gallen is not where you would expect to find the next Armani. Yet being based not only in Switzerland?which has one of the most expensive labor forces in the world?but in a little town bordering the Appenzell region is an advantage, insists Albert Kriemler. He is not what you would expect of a fashion designer, given that he is rather serious and erudite (his references can include modern art and Russian philosophy). Being isolated means that the tailors and technicians he collaborates with, all of them full time and many with the company for years, think Akris from...
...houses in the center of a Palestinian area should be compromised. But the many often-misunderstood-settlements like Gilo and the rest of the Jerusalem belt must be taken into account. While Palestinians need land, Israelis cannot be expected to just leave and abandon the benefits of their hard labor over the last two generations. Just as it is unthinkable here that the United States should give back Texas or Arizona to Mexico, it is nearly unthinkable that Israel should give areas like Gilo, which were nothing but desert under Jordanian control, over to a Palestinian state...
...figures adjusted for inflation where applicable. Sources: Census Bureau; Bureau of Labor Statistics; Bureau of Economic Analysis; Federal Reserve; Mortgage Bankers Association
...GROWTH: Slow ?After two negative years, job growth picked up in September 2003, with 5.6 million people added to payrolls since then. But that barely keeps up with population growth, which adds about 125,000 workers to the labor force each month...
Average growth of labor force...