Word: luxembourger
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...Luxembourg Record Job Losses in the E.U. Unemployment in the 16 countries that use the euro as their currency reached a 10-year high of 9.5% in July, though the pace of increase has slackened since earlier this year. Spain has been battered by the crunch--nearly 1 in 5 adults, and 38.4% of citizens under the age of 25, are jobless--while the Netherlands has weathered the downturn nicely, with just 3.4% of its residents out of work. Analysts say the figures underscore the growing gap between more economically stable euro-using countries, such as France and Germany...
...these are no ordinary pieces of lawn furniture. The 476 chairs and 82 tables come in a variety of bright shades and are modeled after those found in the Jardin du Luxembourg of Paris so as to not detract from the aesthetic appeal of Harvard’s campus...
...better at political and strategic intelligence, but those are secondary considerations in hot wars. But by the same logic, will Blair then ask for Beijing and Moscow, this country's most important conventional-military threats? At the end of the day, the CIA is left with - what, Luxembourg...
...only declined in Portugal, Hungary, the United States, Canada and Japan. The rise in life satisfaction in Turkey is particularly striking. ... While Mexico shows the lowest income among OECD countries, at $10,000 per capita, Mexicans report being almost as satsified with life as OECD's highest income country Luxembourg, at $55,000. ... Korea now has the highest suicide rate among OECD countries (around 22 deaths per 100,000 individuals). Ireland shows a marked regular increase of suicide rates with a peak in 2000, followed by a small but continuous decline...
...even telecom service and equipment suppliers that are prospering have reason to be worried, knowing they are in the crosshairs of free voice providers that want to render the industry as they know it obsolete. The biggest threat to the old order is probably Skype Ltd. of Luxembourg, which has attracted more than 405 million customers since it launched software in 2003 that allows free long-distance calls over the Internet. eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype four years ago because it believed the free voice operator would mesh well with its auction business. It didn't. Now eBay...