Word: labors
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...auto industry toward fully outsourced manufacturing, leaving car companies to focus on design and marketing - a structure similar to that used in the highly competitive computer industry, where companies such as Apple create products but subcontract the actual manufacturing to specialists operating factories in China and other countries where labor costs are relatively low. "What I tried to describe on the Nano is an attempt to look at [outsourcing] as a business model," Tata says...
...boil lanced no matter how painful it may be. The second group wants to see the unimaginable after effects of years of leverage taken as one mammoth typhoon, hoping that it will only last a few quarters, blow itself out, and allow the resulting low cost of labor and commodities to bring the economy back...
...become a policy challenge, even for those who disagree with Quayle. Study after study has shown that babies born to unmarried mothers are at higher risk of ending up in poverty, and that the mothers themselves face educational and economic hurdles. "And in this economy, where attachment to the labor force and jobs are so precarious," says Brown, "the need for teen and young adult years to be used for education and training has never been more pressing...
...year, will travel through populous areas and will likely result in extensive village relocations. (Both Daewoo and the Indian company exploring for oil in Arakan did not respond to Time's requests for comment.) For locals, reporting what I had seen on the plane could land them in a labor camp for compromising national security. The week before I arrived, several Arakanese with vaguely political backgrounds were rounded up by the police and haven't been seen since. "They close our ears and they close our mouths," says an Arakanese political dissident, noting the heavy Burmese security presence that...
...cannot imagine that the government could remain immobile before such a phenomenon," said Bernard Thibault, general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor Union, as the marches got underway...