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...English, they were accompanied by an interpreter, the same person for each group. Even though English proficiency is a license requirement, all the Arab students received driver's licenses, trucking sources say. (It's not clear how they passed the written test, which is in English.) Charlie Tweedy, the owner of Careers Worldwide, a truck-driving school in Denver, told TIME that FBI agents have examined his files and interviewed his employees. But he denied that his company had taught non-English speakers...
...Qaeda might have similar problems; even if it got its supplies from a pariah like Saddam Hussein, it would have to find a way to deliver them. Officials know that hijacker Mohamed Atta asked about crop dusters before the Sept. 11 attacks. And a Delray Beach, Fla., drugstore owner says a man resembling Atta showed up at his store in late August seeking treatment for a burning sensation on his abnormally red hands. But none of this is conclusive...
Sales at Tommy’s House of Pizza are down about 15 percent this year, after the City of Cambridge withdrew the permit allowing the late-night establishment to stay open until 3 a.m. according to the Tommy’s owner Mian Iftikhar...
...Ollie Galam, owner of Executive Clothiers, a men's store in Prospect Heights, Ill., today's hard times have triggered a reappraisal of his salespeople's pay formula. He is considering lowering typical base salaries from $40,000 to $35,000 and offering higher commissions. "We have to shift more of the risk to employees," Galam says. "The owner can't take all of it anymore...
Because sometimes it doesn't pay off--for employee or owner. In May, Robert Barton of Burr Ridge, Ill., took a $10,000 pay cut when he switched from his old job at an energy trade publication in Washington to a position as a manager at a business-intelligence outfit in Chicago, lured by the prospect of earning hefty commissions based on the business he helped bring in. "I saw the upside of this arrangement," he recalls. Soon enough, he saw the downside. On Sept. 14, the national day of mourning for the terror attacks, he was let go during...