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...letting staffers who have used up all their paid days off borrow from next year's allotment, telecommute or make up the lost time in other ways. The important thing, he says, is to follow government guidelines, send your employee home, and worry later how and if to pay them...
...agreement - think of it as a financial trade - the U.S. would buy an option to require China to lower its emissions below a certain agreed level. At the same time, Beijing would take out what amounts to an insurance policy to establish a minimum amount that Washington would pay Beijing if or when the U.S. exercised its option. The cost of Beijing's insurance policy and the cost to the U.S. of exercising its option on China's emissions levels would be set at roughly the same price...
...provide construction jobs and an influx of revenue, any boost would be short-lived. "To make a city prosperous, it's about brainpower, not block parties," says Tom Tresser, an organizer for the opposition group No Games Chicago. Though Mayor Richard Daley has promised that local taxpayers wouldn't pay a dime of the Games' estimated $4.8 billion cost, he's also signed an agreement with the IOC that puts the city on the hook for any excessive cost overruns - an Olympic tradition as common as crying. London, the 2012 host, is already on pace to spend more than...
...Steve Birnhak has another idea: turning empty storefronts into billboards. The company he founded, New York-based Inwindow Outdoor, connects property owners with advertisers who are willing to pay for window space, conveniently located at eye level of anyone walking or driving by. The ads go from floor to ceiling and are pretty hard to miss. One recent Chicago project advertised Intel over the entire façade of a now defunct Comp USA store...
...nation's total lost wages from caring for formula-fed children with diarrhea and acute respiratory infections during the first six months of life was 1 billion pesos ($21.3 million), a figure that does not include the cost of doctor visits, medicine and hospitalization that parents have to pay. (Read "Salma Hayek, Breast-Feeding and One Very Public Service...