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...property market while losing agricultural land to so-called residential development, which may well stand empty for more than half the year. Tax benefits for property speculators are costly and regressive and any politician considering ways to save money should give them a long hard look. M. Esdaile Walker, COLOGNE, GERMANY...
...that Suzlon has built a factory in Tianjin with more than 900 employees to satisfy Chinese requirements for 70% local parts content in turbines. "They want to promote local industry. But then the question is, What is local?" says Soares. "More than 95% of my employees are Chinese. I'm an investor here, a producer here and pay taxes here. So why is there this difference?" Adding insult to injury, Chinese firms are proving to be tough competitors in markets outside China's borders. In Germany, where government subsidies helped stimulate global solar-panel production, an industry association is investigating...
Your cover story neglected to outline the steps our new college graduates should take to ensure adequate funding for their retirement. I'm sure there are no easy answers, but a 35- or 40-year plan based on history would have provided an interesting and useful tutorial...
...teen pregnancy, sexuality and infidelity. Besides the leap in demographics (would you let your third-grader watch Glee?) and the show's many talented rising stars, Glee strays from the squeaky-clean Disney dogma and gets gritty, gruesome and, most of all, real. Sorry, Troy and Gabriella, but I'm a Gleek...
...zealously opposing so much of the Democrats' agenda, may be its own worst enemy. Peter Darbee, PG&E's CEO, applauds Donohue's effort to rehabilitate the American public's faith in free enterprise in the wake of the past year's troubles." But he added, "I'm struck by the irony that, as we try to restore public trust in business on the one hand, on the other the Chamber's behavior on the climate issue only reinforces stereotypes that erode that very same confidence...