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...short time, then return home. Managers who refuse to let them work illegal overtime risk losing workers to less stringent factories. Likewise, in India, it's not possible to "create E.U.-like working conditions," says Anil Bhardwaj, of the New-Delhi based Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises. "It might hurt our conscience to know that a child sold into slavery for 500 rupees [12 dollars] is making a shirt we might wear. But there are millions living on the fringes of society for whom 500 rupees is a lot of money. For them, it's a survive...
...Either, way, pundits agree that it's as smart for Chavez to distance himself from the FARC as it is to backtrack on his new domestic intelligence law. They also suggest that the Venezuelan leader is keeping his radical burners on medium-low for now, in the hopes that fewer outbursts from Hurricane Hugo - who has previously called President Bush "the devil" and Uribe "a criminal" - could even help get a Democrat into the White House this fall. "[Chavez] may decide to go a little less gonzo in the coming months as a result," says Birns. Meanwhile, the rest...
...significant cost in terms of lost output and employment--under Fed Chairman Paul Volcker. For the Federal Reserve, two crucial lessons from this experience were, first, that high inflation can seriously destabilize the economy and, second, that the central bank must take responsibility for achieving price stability over the medium term...
...LEVITSKY: ‘A PRETTY MEDIUM-SIZED BRAIN?...
...fact that only about one of every 10 junior faculty in the government department achieve tenure, as well as on his personal experience that “every single junior faculty that was here when I arrived departed,” Levitsky reasoned, using his “pretty medium-sized brain,” that his time at Harvard was running...