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...most complicated and potentially lucrative market, however, is in Europe, where Flextronics employs 25,000 workers in 15 very different countries. Some, like Germany and France, are heavily unionized, and workers in some parts of Eastern Europe retain the slothful habits they developed at communist state-owned factories. Still, wages for low-skilled factory workers in Hungary are about $2 an hour, versus $15 in neighboring Austria. And wages are even lower in Ukraine, where Flextronics began experimenting with a pilot project early this year. In a corner of what was a dingy Soviet domestic-appliance works in Beregovo, workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Tech: You Name It, We'll Make It | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS July 2001 The U.S. threatened to exit a conference on curbing illegal trafficking of small arms and light weapons, objecting to any interference with Americans' right to bear arms. To retain U.S. participation, initial plans were watered down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unilateralism Is U.S. | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...response to the question of how one can be involved in politics and simultaneously retain one’s morality, Dukakis exclaimed, “You can run for an elected office and not sell your soul to the fat cats. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t run for office in this country...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Dukakis Reminisces, Jabs Bushes | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...issues that concerns the publishers is a technological byproduct of transferring digital files - even with the best of intentions, Adler says, digital transmission creates temporary copies that the library will retain while the user has the content. One solution would be a ?simultaneous transmission and deletion? system, where the library deletes its copy while the borrower has it, and the borrower deletes it upon "returning" it to the library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Libraries the Next Napster? | 7/24/2001 | See Source »

...killing useless public-works projects. But he also warned that it would hurt at first: salaries would shrink, jobs disappear. Now, he's retelling that tale of gloom on the eve of the July 29 election to the upper house of parliament. His Liberal Democratic Party needs to retain a majority of seats for Koizumi to remain in office. But unlike his predecessors?Japan has had nine Prime Ministers in the past 10 years?Koizumi isn't trying to sway the electorate with populist rhetoric. And they love him for telling it like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

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