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...back on the 35-hour workweek. Pushed by labor unions in Germany and France who hoped it would create jobs, the measure instead jacked up the cost of doing business. Siemens just negotiated a return to a 40-hour week for the 4,000 workers at its two phone plants in Germany. Philips is discussing increasing working hours at its Hamburg semiconductor plant as part of a cost-cutting plan. Automakers DaimlerChrysler and Opel, the German arm of General Motors, and railroad firm Deutsche Bahn are currently negotiating longer hours with their unions. The German rollback has become possible because...
Coffee arabica, the coffee plant, is endemic to Ethiopia, although the plant has been transplanted around the globe to current coffee powerhouses...
...Generally speaking, we want to move to Allston,” Dean Ellen Condliffe Lagemann said in an interview last spring. “Our physical plant is currently constraining what we want to do. We really need new space...
Norman Borlaug, the plant pathologist described by the Atlantic Monthly as having saved more lives than anyone else in the history of mankind, came within eight seeds of failure...
According to Christopher Dowswell, the director of communications at the Sasakawa Africa Association, Borlaug crossed high yield tall wheats with much shorter Japanese wheats to develop a plant which produced substanitally more grain...