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...which has thus far resisted calls for boardroom quotas. "We support the desire in society to have more women in leadership roles," says Werner Schnappauf, the head of Germany's Industry Federation, an umbrella organization of industrial companies and industry-related service providers. But he adds that instituting "rigid legal requirements, like a quota, are not a suitable method." The move is also likely to anger more than a few people at Deutsche Telekom, Wenders says. "Some male employees may worry that they'll have a difficult time now getting to the top," she explains. The quota has gone down...
...some predictions are well-worn, others are downright dubious. "Freedom and Fairness" is the most problematic. This is a country where dissidents disappear and where the legal system can be twisted. Yet China's brutally efficient machinery of repression and state capitalism is, in the Naisbitts' gushing parlance, "a new form of governance and development, never before seen in modern history." Really? Is an autocracy grimly determined to keep itself in power all that unique...
Starbucks, which has been the target of similar pro-gun displays in other states, finds itself caught in the middle. The company issued a statement saying that "the political, policy and legal debates around these issues belong in the legislatures and courts, not in our stores." Gun opponents want Starbucks to exercise its legal authority to ban gun displays on its property, as Peet's Coffee & Tea and California Pizza Kitchen have done. "Guns are not protest signs," says Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But because California law prohibits openly carried guns from being...
...much-loved character. ... It's probably increased Stelios' profile quite a bit." EasyJet, however, doesn't believe the ad was harmless. "I don't think that's the way it's been interpreted by our founder," spokesman Andrew McConnell says. He declined to comment further, citing the legal proceedings...
Meanwhile, the negative economic ripple effect of cuts to the Los Angeles civil courts could result in a nearly $30 billion hit to the local economy over the next four years, according to a study commissioned by the Los Angeles Superior Court. According to the study, the legal services industry would take an estimated $13 billion loss and businesses operating in uncertainty, because of pending civil disputes, would accumulate another $15 billion in potential losses. The decline in economic activity would then result in an additional $1.6 billion in losses...