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...effects of this new and evolving family structure are reshaping Spain's economic and social future. In the March 9 elections, Spanish voters will decide whether to give a second term to Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the unlikely revolutionary whose four-year overhaul of social legislation has made Spain a paragon of progressive family law. Popular Party challenger Mariano Rajoy has attempted to tap into what he sees as an underlying distrust of those rapid changes, but even he shies away from addressing them directly because he is aware that his allies in the Catholic...
...sleek new shape, Philips hopes, will help boost its profit margin, before tax, interest and other charges, from last year's 7.7% to beyond 10% by 2010. That would add some $900 million to those earnings based on last year's sales of $39 billion. Preoccupied with its overhaul in recent years, "we haven't been growing to our potential," admits Gerard Kleisterlee, 61, Philips' CEO since 2001. Reversing that, he says, means "making the company more agile...
...past seven years, Newton Street School of Humanities has not met federal testing benchmarks under the No Child Left Behind law (NCLB) . What’s worse, neither the federal government or the state government seems prepared to offer specific recommendations for improving school standards other than a complete overhaul...
...funded fiefdom, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), are contracting out the vast majority of this work. Rice says she wants her diplomats getting their hands dirty in development work, but lawmakers are growing impatient at what they see is a lack of will to fund the major overhaul and hiring binge that this would require. Indeed, in 1970 USAID employed 4,500 foreign service officers; today it employs only...
...student vote for years, with increasing success. Riemer extracted a promise that his work would be an integral part of the overall campaign, not a lip-serviced, photo-op'ed afterthought. His timing was perfect. The art of political organizing is in the midst of a broad philosophical overhaul that erases many of the old distinctions between young voters and their elders...