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...Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel - who herself owns three farms in Denmark - says the proposed changes would redirect farm aid to those who really need it. They slash subsidies above $147,000 by 10%, above $296,000 by 20% and above $443,000 by 45%. "We need to look at whether we need to adjust the CAP for an E.U. of 27 countries and a rapidly changing world," Fischer Boel said. "The changes I propose will make a real difference for farmers, consumers and taxpayers...
When will that be? The question was posed anew on Tuesday, when unions representing France's five million civil service workers called on teachers, hospital workers, postal employees, and administrative staff to leave their jobs and join nation-wide protests against government plans to slash nearly 23,000 public sector jobs next year. Those walkouts greatly broadened the front opposing government reform initiated Nov. 14 by transport and utility workers, whose ongoing strikes against the tightening of their pension schemes have caused most rail travel throughout France to be canceled, and have brought suburban train, subway, and bus service...
...Abortion.” The film introduces 11 women who have undergone abortions and who are diverse in age, race, class, ideology, and sexuality. The film means to present abortion as an issue that “affects all women,” and it hopes to slash the stigma associated with what is the most common elective surgery in the United States.An estimated 1.3 million American women terminate pregnancies each year; roughly 43 percent of American women have had abortions before age 45. Yet although abortion is legal, the filmmakers believe it is “still so stigmatized...
...29 fare. Fernandes advertised the promotion with his usual flair. Ads showing two beautiful flight attendants draped over a subdued tiger boasted, "AirAsia tames even the wildest tiger." Udom Tantiprasongchai, chief executive of Orient Thai Airlines, says fierce competition from AirAsia and flag carrier Thai Airways forced him to slash the fare on his One-Two-Go budget service from Bangkok to Chiang Mai to less than $25, about 30% lower than he had planned. At that price, he admitted, he lost money. But Udom has wreaked revenge. He says he routinely employs a team in his office...
...offered discount flights home for cash-strapped teachers, while embassies have opened hot lines to aid their stranded citizens. The out-of-work teachers have glutted the local labor market, causing other schools to stop accepting job applications. "The market is already saturated, and many schools have had to slash prices as enrollment steadily declines," says Susumu Ikegami, a spokesperson for GEOS, the country's second largest English institute. "We worry about loss of consumer confidence in the industry as a whole...