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...have been lobbying the region's wealthy states to open up their labor markets. Issuing short-term visas for unskilled workers is not a new idea. But with Australia and New Zealand seeking closer engagement in the Pacific, many of the region's respected voices feel a guest-worker scheme is ripe for a trial. "We have a lot of people looking for work, and they are not lazy," says Rick Hou, governor of the Central Bank of Solomon Islands. "Australia and New Zealand don't have enough workers to pick fruit and work on farms. It's a perfect...
...help create stable and self-sustaining neighbors. To this end, Howard has announced that Australia will fund a regional technical college. Still, labor mobility remains on the Forum's formal agenda. Despite the myriad objections, a country of 10 million workers can afford at least to test a scheme for a few thousand temporary foreign workers, incorporating lessons from other Western countries. It may or may not bear fruit. But given the malaise of Australia's neighbors, it's worth planting a few new seeds...
...Green defense, an equally notable figure was 13—the number of tackles for senior linebacker Robert Balkema. Balkema paced the Harvard defense all day. Five of those 13 tackles were for a loss, including three sacks. “A lot of it was just the scheme,” Balkema said. “We were sending more guys than they could block...A lot of times I was just free. The D-line just controlled the line of scrimmage.” Balkema broke into the starting lineup earlier this season after junior Danny Tanner went...
...survive. Jigsaw intends to make society value the sanctity of life, believing those who live will have a greater appreciation for what they were wasting away. Amanda (Shawnee Smith, who reprises her role in the sequel), the former drug addict who once survived Jigsaw’s maniacal scheme, credits him with motivating her to address her problem. The sequel stars Donnie Wahlberg (“The Sixth Sense” and kin of Marky Mark) as Detective Eric Mason, a down-and-out cop struggling with severe disillusionment at work and the estrangement of his son Daniel (Erik Knudsen...
...busy jumping hyperactively from plotline to plotline. The movie grudgingly develops a storyline in its second half. Government agents force Elena to divorce Zorro and to seduce Archduke Wilhelm (Michel Bos), a member of a European guild plotting to destroy the United States. Zorro must stop the dastardly scheme: in come the sabers and muskets! However, these badly-choreographed, ten-on-one battles are sickeningly artificial. Enjoying them is less a question of suspending belief than throwing it off a cliff and leaving it for dead. “Legend”’s one-dimensional excuses...