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...trade: "He had not known me two days before he asked me to accompany him to Barnwell on an evening after Hall, just as quietly as a compatriot might have asked me to take a drink." The ease with which his peers exploited women reflected their view that "a shop girl, work-woman, domestic servant, and all females in similar positions, were expressly designed for the amusement of gentlemen, and generally serve that purpose...
...market with, say, gas-guzzlers no one wants to buy anymore. "Southern communities understand you can't tie organizations down with restrictions," says manufacturing management expert David Miller of the Alabama Productivity Center. "Successful auto companies in the South provide all the positives you'd find in a union shop...
...stop shop for solar power,' says Johanna Partin, San Francisco's renewable energy program manger. If you can't get solar power with the help of the CH2M Hill map, you're just not trying very hard...
Business groups oppose the open ballot provision because they claim it leaves employees dangerously open to peer pressure. They also particularly dislike a provision in the bill that requires just a simple majority of a company's employees to make it a unionized shop and another that would invoke binding arbitration after 120 days of negotiating. Businesses argue EFCA could cost them, and therefore the economy, untold billions annually. Union advocates argue that the bill is not just good for unions but a boost for the economy as well. "If it becomes easier for working people to form unions...
...CFOs was access to capital. While the industry is not as capital-intensive as it once was, Perryman says, it is still intertwined with the health of the financial system. However, in Amarillo, where the energy sector is about 25% of the economy, the talk around the coffee shop is still dominated by the price of a barrel of oil, Ingham says. The view from Amarillo is that the economy would be much better off with "some kind of stability in the energy markets," Ingham says, "but so far, no one has figured out how to do that...