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...This, in case you just joined us, is the cost-cutting phase. Labor costs are two-thirds of business costs, and cutting production was the first thing manufacturing has to do to get humming again. The second was shedding labor. Labor takes longer, hence the lousy Q1 productivity number; the improved Q2 number signaled that the columns were coming back into line. And cutting 141,000 more jobs in August will only help manufacturing find its profit margins again...
...just because NATO's hands are tied doesn't mean they will be able to wash them clean at the end of this autumn's Essential Harvest. The European Union is already giving "serious thought" to a bolstered observer presence to "soften the phase shift" once NATO pulls out. But no one really believes the N.L.A. is going to fade into the hills, however many guns it hands over in the coming month. Ten years in the Balkans have regrettably demonstrated the stubborn inertia of armed conflict. Just as in Bosnia and Kosovo, NATO could find the potential cost...
...rough on a man's pride to be a patient. Even after you get into your Extremely Late 40s, a life phase that lasts until 70 or so, you maintain a certain manly sense of yourself (He jumps! He shoots! He scores!), but now, taking a slow postoperative stroll down the hall, heading for the lounge with the jigsaw puzzles, you catch a glimpse of yourself in the glass door ahead, a shambling galoot in droopy, pee-stained pajamas. (When they pull out the catheter, it takes you a day or two to get your sphincter reset.) This...
...Only nine states have so far redrawn the congressional lines; the rest are still debating boundaries. The drawing phase is critical; the way state assemblies apportion the new maps could determine the makeup of the U.S. House of Representatives for the coming decade. That?s because in most states, the party that controls the legislature and governor?s seat also controls the map - and can draw the lines in ways that favor its candidates. "The stakes are very, very high," says one Democratic Party official...
...battle has shifted to state houses and courthouses, and neither party is wasting any time. The day after last November?s election both parties began assembling teams of lawyers and redistricting experts who fanned out across the country to help friendly legislators draw up their maps. The drawing phase, of course, is only the beginning: already, suits have been filed in ten states challenging new boundaries, and many more are expected. Redistricting is being called the "hidden war" - but its outcome couldn?t be more important for both parties...