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...capita trumps its near neighbors', according to the O.E.C.D. For firms operating in the country, that's a sign of "stability in the workforce," says Matt Jackson, a Washington-based international corporate location specialist with Deloitte. Foreign firms agree. Steve McCracken, CEO of Ohio-based global packaging firm O-I, last week slammed the "socialistic" barriers to businesses in parts of the E.U., two months after announcing plans to locate the firm's European base in Lausanne. But barriers of a different kind worry the E.U. Ahead of another referendum in September - this one on opening the country...
...O Haru was a farmer's daughter. She said things like "Hai-hai!" and "O-i!" and "Ma-a!" So did everybody else in Takiya. They understood each other perfectly. They wanted no truck with newfangled gadgets like alarm clocks that went ji-ji-ji-ji. What they really liked was the noise of the silkworms feeding in the loft, the village bell calling to some occasion of innocent merriment...
Just the same, they could not stay away from the big city. O Haru's sister had gone there and was so lost to shame that she got a job as waitress at a café. O Haru's father went there, and returned with an alarm clock, a fountain pen, and a traveling bag for his wife. Noboru went there, to try to reclaim O Haru's sister, but she had got out of the way of saying "Ma-a!" and "O-i!" so they did not have much to talk about. Noboru went home, like...
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