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...advantage the U.S. continues to have over Japan and Europe is flexibility of labor. That doesn't diminish the argument against diversification internationally, particularly without the headwind of a stronger dollar. Americans investing abroad in the past five years have had this headwind all along, and now it is payback time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecast: Buy The World | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...coming. Their orders were to destroy half the buildings in Arafat's compound (called the Muqata'a), which they did over the course of a six-hour onslaught, but to leave Arafat unscathed, just as they had in a similar raid starting in late March. This new attack was payback for a bombing the day before that killed 17 Israelis. But the bombing had been claimed by Islamic Jihad, a radical Palestinian group that does not answer to Arafat and, moreover, opposes him. So why did the Israelis level their retaliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Israel Targets Arafat | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...every project on a payback analysis, determining how much we spend versus how much we will save,” Phillips says. “We don’t throw money at things. We do a project when it makes sense...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Pushes Energy Reduction | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

...Prime Minister, who had hinted at compromise in March before taking the hard line, may be cornered by his own business supporters. "Confindustria supported the center-right during the election," top union boss Sergio Cofferati noted last month in an interview with Time, "and now they're demanding the payback." Ultimately though, the debate over Italy's workforce will have to move beyond Article 18. Italian labor economist Francesca Utili says the country's support of tight job protections are in part a result of uncommonly meager unemployment benefits: "Once you enter the market there is pressure to keep your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marching In Place | 4/28/2002 | See Source »

SWITZERLAND Payback Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 4/21/2002 | See Source »

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