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...Socialist government in 1998, he wants to free both employers and employees from paying payroll tax and insurance charges on overtime hours. Royal's response: "I prefer to give work to those who don't have any," especially through a government-funded program to give six-month "springboard" jobs to young people leaving school...
...first husband, the late Senator John Heinz, a leading liberal Republican, were keynoting at an Earth Day rally in 1990. The authors begin with some decent, if unspectacular, examples of environmental destruction. They detail the work of pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson, and use her experiences as a springboard to discuss the challenges posed by toxic pollution and how environmental contamination contributes to cancer. The solutions they provide in the first chapters are sound—highlighting environmentally-conscious manufacturing and sustainable urban planning, among other things. Still, these first two chapters struggle to be relevant, and the book goes...
Evil, at its worst, is ineffable. In the weeks and months to come, yesterday’s cold-blooded shooting rampage at Virginia Tech will be analyzed ad nauseam by every credentialed authority from every conceivable angle. A procession of talking heads will use this tragedy as a heuristic springboard for their pet theories about videogames, adolescent disaffection, race, gun-control, mental illness, religious faith, the endemic violence of the American psyche, you name...
Fuller's aim is much more ambitious than making Idol a fund-raising juggernaut. He wants to launch a whole new TV genre, using America's most popular show as his springboard. But he and Curtis do not seem daunted, either because they believe Idol is unsinkable or because they're both pretty familiar with the whole putting-on-a-show concept. "These things can be fantastically innovative and dynamic and not just ploddy old telethons," says Fuller. He admits Fox is not so sure. "But, hats off to them, they're supporting us. How reluctantly, I don't know...
Still, Trumpf uses its U.S. operations as a springboard not just to the American market but also to Asia, where it exports part of its U.S. production. "Russia is going well, so are OPEC countries," she says. "But we also believe in the American economy." While the world tries to figure out just how critical the U.S. is, keeping your eggs in a lot of different baskets may be the best strategy...