Word: milan
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...women, suggesting that paying women less than men is more serious than paying poverty-level wages for all hourly employees. That attitude could be considered a kind of gender discrimination--against male hourly workers--and it keeps society from creating true equality and justice in the workplace. ROSOLINO SCARLATA Milan...
...diversification, solidity and stability to our future results," Santander chairman Emilio Botín proclaimed. So has the predicted round of consolidation begun at last? Er, not really. "This is not the beginning of cross-border banking mergers in the euro zone," says Francesco Giavazzi, an economist at Milan's Bocconi University. If anything, Giavazzi says, Santander's move in Britain demonstrates how many barriers remain to such transnational deals. Santander had already been blocked from taking over France's Société Générale in 1999 because the bid came from abroad. When Spain...
Europe's most famous soccer teams are having a busy summer wooing fans in that longtime soccer wasteland, the United States. Scottish champion Glasgow Celtic, English powerhouses Manchester United and Chelsea, and Italian champ AC Milan are among nine teams on tour, playing in such cities as Seattle, Cleveland and Philadelphia, often to packed stadiums. For the players, it's a chance for a preseason tune-up in the perfect environment - away from their rabid fans. "The facilities are second to none," says Chelsea Football Club CEO Peter Kenyon. But more important, the big clubs...
...bases of identification with the game. While fans treat the game as a tableux enactment of ancient tribal battles, the "actors" are often of foreign origin whose wanderings might have them, within a year, being hailed as champions of the Basque or Catalan cause, or the class rivalries of Milan, or some other oblique issue. They're simply professionals marketing their skills to the highest bidder in the increasingly globalized world of international soccer...
...game as a tableux enactment of ancient tribal battles, the "actors" are Dutchmen, Georgians, Danes, Brazilians, Portuguese, Swedes, Frenchmen, Guineans, Ivorians, Bulgarians and others whose professional wanderings might have them, within a year, being hailed as champions of the Basque or Catalan cause, or the class rivalries of Milan, or some other oblique cause. They're simply professionals marketing their skills to the highest bidder in the increasingly globalized world of international soccer...