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...companies pay illegals poverty wages, reap high profits and complain that if they had to employ legal workers they would go out of business. That is modern slavery, no matter how you cut it, and the only way to stop it is to close the borders, fine those who hire illegal immigrants and then ferret out the illegals who are in this country...
...past year, Saigon has seen some new competition for foreign dollars. As international corporations seek alternatives to China's rising labor costs, Vietnam's north-where wages are cheaper than both southern Vietnam and coastal China-is starting to reap the benefits of slow but steady free-market reforms. Last year, Hanoi for the first time overtook Ho Chi Minh City in FDI, capturing $1.6 billion of the total $6.2 billion. Saigon's share was $738 million. In the past five years, numerous foreign manufacturers have set up shop in the capital, among them Fujitsu, LG Electronics and Daewoo. "People...
...adopt the same policy as Yale, Brown, and a number of other schools, which offer short contracts that can be renewed contingent on the school’s need and the lecturer’s performance, but with no expectation of long-term employment. This would allow Harvard to reap the benefits of having top-level teachers who are not constantly forced out by rules, while preventing the development of secondary faculty that effectively has tenure.The curricular review’s proposals will plug gaping holes in Harvard’s curriculum by providing broad Courses in General Education...
...rusting hulks and their tiny crews never have to leave the fishing grounds. Some crews stay for years, eventually abandoning their ships in the shallow waters. "It's a horrible situation," says Walsh. "These young men wasting away on a shambles of a ship, while their employers reap the benefits...
...power to fuel its surging economy. What?s more, the country?s own coal is particularly dirty and polluting and no one concerned about global warming wants to see India stay as reliant on fossil fuels. The U.S. is eager to cement its ties with India as well as reap the economic benefits of selling billions of dollars in nuclear equipment to India at a time when America?s nuclear power industry hasn?t built a new plant in over 30 years. More importantly, U.S. India relations are, in Burns?s words, at a "high water mark" since...