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...keep him from moving his factory to Poland: affinity for the town where his factory is based and the trade unions. "He says, 'If I just look at the economics, it's a no-brainer. What it costs me to employ a German for one hour, I get a Polish skilled worker for a day plus I pay 19% tax,'" says Barnes. "He is not going to close his factory, but his next investment is going to be in Poland." From Eastern Europe, calls for harmonization sound like sour grapes. "We look at the German economy with a sense...
...Girl and Boy Scout troops are taking organized tours through establishments ranging from Sports Authority stores to Saturn dealerships to Krispy Kreme outlets. With school budgets squeezed in recent years, these free excursions are in some cases replacing trips to more traditional destinations. While companies are eager to polish their community image, critics say the real goal is to turn kids into brand-loyal consumers...
DIED. JACEK KURON, 70, chain-smoking Polish academic and dissident in the 1970s who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into the fold of future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (in which welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency failed. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said, "There would have been no success or victory without him, without...
...compared it to playing in the Super Bowl--"the last two minutes for two years." He lobbied Welch for the chance to run his own unit, then took GE's weakest business--making electricity-generation equipment--and quadrupled its sales. But Jeff Immelt, who was known for his polish and intellect and ran GE's cutting-edge medical-systems business, won the top job. The other contender, Jim McNerney at GE Aircraft Engines, entertained an offer from 3M before the race was even over. That's not Nardelli's style. "I was not going to be outside interviewing," he says...
Athletes wearing Play Dry from Reebok cite a similar effect; the material also draws sweat to its fibers. U.S. tennis star Andy Roddick, Swedish heptathlete Carolina Kluft--the gold-medal favorite--and the Polish weight-lifting team will be among those sporting Play Dry in Greece. The technology helped Reebok sell some $263 million in apparel worldwide last year...