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There's a gender issue too, as roughly 86% of people seeking cosmetic enhancements are women, ASPS data show. The National Organization for Women (NOW) has spoken out against the tax. As Terry O'Neill, NOW's president, told the New York Times, "[Women] are going for Botox or going...
Microsoft's move came as part of a legal settlement with the European Commission after a decade of skirmishes with the E.U.'s antitrust authority. Neelie Kroes, the E.U. competition commissioner, says Microsoft's previous approach denied consumers a fair choice. "It is as if you went to the supermarket...
The settlement may also establish antitrust regulation as a key driver of innovation and competition in the IT sector. When Microsoft first began trading blows with the European Commission, it took a confrontational approach, as if it never believed it would be tamed by Brussels bureaucrats. But the tussles have...
For BA's bank balance, then, stifling the strike was key. In applying for the High Court injunction, the carrier argued that the union's ballot wrongly included hundreds of BA staff who had already agreed to take voluntary redundancy before any industrial action would have started. Unite insisted that...
Not surprisingly, Unite pledged Thursday to hold another vote, a process that usually takes at least a couple of weeks. But by bungling the first one and choosing to stretch out the proposed strike over 12 days - a duration BA staff weren't aware of at the time of the...