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...Bihar are not only homeless but stranded, and 55 have been killed as the floods washed out the roads and railroad lines that connected residents to the rest of the country. "We can't reach there," says Dinesh Kumar Mishra, a civil engineer and head of the non-profit group Barh Mukti Abhiyan (Freedom from Floods Campaign), who spoke to TIME from northern Bihar, where he is trying to organize relief efforts. "They are trapped." Mishra, who has been tracking monsoon floods for more than 20 years, says this year's flooding in Bihar is worse than previous years...
...called for if the country is to cope with food-price inflation. Japan needs to deregulate its agricultural industry. The sector is plagued by longstanding barriers to entry that prevent corporations from getting into the business. This hampers the introduction of modern farming techniques that would improve productivity and profit margins. By maintaining the status quo, Tokyo is missing out: the rise in food prices and increasing incomes in other Asian economies provide substantial export opportunities for Japanese farmers...
...shop. Stitzer is predicting that yet another restructuring--the company plans to close 15% of its factories and ax 15% of its workers in the next four years--will allow Cadbury's chocolate, candy and chewing-gum business to deliver annual sales increases of 4% to 6% and profit margins in the midteens by 2011 from its current level of around...
...from the Southside whom Michelle took under her wing and recommended for the charity's board. Huffman was drawn into Obama's orbit and, like dozens of Michelle's other protégés, volunteered for Barack Obama's campaigns. "Each ally was placed with a not-for-profit, about 20 to 30 a year. When you think of the number of people who got to know who Michelle was, and by extension Barack, that's a whole generation from all over Chicago," Huffman says...
...American market system, purportedly a free market despite its flaws and gross inefficiencies, has opened this vulnerability. The oil suppliers may tighten the noose, but we tied it around our throats long ago. Hiding behind the wall of anonymity, the perpetrators profit and achieve their own ends, bringing down America in the process...