Word: stationed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sector jobs like teachers and nurses. These jobs are held mostly by women, which helps explain female hostility to the euro. "We would give away the power over our economy," says Zaida Catalán, a Green Party activist who was talking down the euro at Stockholm's Central Station last week. "Monetary union will lead to worse conditions in the workplace." It's difficult to fight against the politics of fear, but the yes side has raised the stakes in the debate by hinting Sweden faces a bleak future without the euro. In a newspaper article, Carl-Henric Svanberg...
...were a bit banal, and that if you put together good design, good marketing, a good location and some hard work, you would have a 'cocktail explosif,'" says Jean-Louis. The detonator was an unknown designer named Philippe Starck, who modeled the interior after the railroad station in Budapest. Kaboom! Before long, Starck was a star and Café Costes was taking in five times as much money as it had before his makeover. The brothers have been cloning versions of Café Costes ever since. The formula that the Costes have applied is hands-off, within limits. Jean-Louis...
...joke, or perhaps the world's biggest public-relations challenge. The Russian firm AtomStroyExport (ASE) is trying to sell nuclear reactors to Finland - one of the countries worst affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It's a tough job. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear-power station's No. 4 reactor experienced a massive fire and meltdown, releasing radioactive dust that wafted over Finland. The resulting contamination forced Finnish authorities to slaughter almost a half a million farm animals and restrict fishing in rivers and lakes in central and northern Finland until 1988. Those memories die hard. Indeed, Finland...
...billion when he joined the company in July 2002. After the deal, it will be below €10 billion. Fourtou's problem is that Vivendi remains a jumble. It has some telecommunications businesses, plus the world's largest music company, Universal Music Group, and the French subscription TV station Canal Plus, neither of which is doing well. Then there are the "noncore" assets: a remaining 20% stake in the water utility it spun off last year, Veolia Environnement, and a shareholding in Elektrim, a Polish telecommunications company. For a while Fourtou seemed to be betting on telecom: last year, even...
...jury unanimously rejected Byrne’s claim that he had used reasonable force in the incident. Taking the stand Tuesday, Byrne admitted striking Trombly in the Brighton station house but said that he had reacted in a terrified split-second after seeing the student reach for what he thought was a weapon...