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...fire at work. (Again?) Maybe she scrambles madly to find someone who can clean up the mess in time for her to sneak out at 4. (Did anyone see me?) Or perhaps, after another late night, she spends the car ride home wondering whether she should just quit. (This time, I swear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reworking Work | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

...Rover. With Britain "the first place to get major Japanese investment" in its auto sector, "it would be in keeping to get the first major Chinese offshore investment," he reasons. Could the good times catch on over at Volkswagen? Peter Hartz, head of personnel at the German carmaker, quit last week in connection with a bribery and sex scandal. Separately, the firm unveiled a cost-cutting plan aimed at restarting the firm. Said Wolfgang Bernhard, chairman of the Volkswagen Brand Group: "If we cannot survive here at Volkswagen, then industrial Europe is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

...oeuvre. Being unstable and borderline abusive certainly isn’t enough for us to root against him, so we better make sure we throw in “sleeps with lots of other woman,” and “going to make Claire quit working and become a housewife” into...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Crashers’ Give Goofy Titillation | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...weeks. "I don't know anybody in the industry," he says, "but I'm hoping to find something that pays about 200,000 yen [approximately $2,000 a month]." In the meantime, he works as a furniture mover in Tokyo. Then there's Rika Saihara, 23, who recently quit a full-time job with a storage company because, she says, she didn't fit in at work. She hasn't had a job in three months, but because she is living at home with her parents in Tokyo, she doesn't feel any rush. "I am thinking of registering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deepening Divide | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

...home?if her own widely criticized presidency weren't hanging by the thinnest of threads. She insisted that her speech was not "a political ploy or gimmick," but that's how it came across. The following day, seven members of her Cabinet, including Arroyo's respected economic team, quit, saying they had been on the verge of resigning anyway, and that Arroyo had simply been trying to pre-empt their moves and show that she's still in charge. "The President can be part of the solution to this crisis by making the supreme sacrifice for God and country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can She Hold On? | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

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