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...says the city has attracted about 1,500 jobs in the first five months of the year. Among the new arrivals: factories for DaimlerChrysler, BMW and the U.S. electronics giant Motorola. Still, Berlin will have to do a lot better if it is to make a dent in its stubborn unemployment figures. And Stefan Kr?tke, author of Berlin: Metropolis Between Boom and Crisis, is worried that the cuts in the city budget will impact the sectors in which Berlin is strong. "The financial consolidation is now threatening the few islands of economic growth," Kr?tke says. "They are making severe cuts...
...first months as president of Harvard, Pusey acted as the stubborn “anti anti-Communist” that McCarthy had labeled...
...think it was one of our best races of the season because we had to be very stubborn for the entire race,” Riffelmacher said. “It was good because we proved to ourselves that we could row from behind...
...Stubborn Wall Melts Away CYPRUS One morning last week, Tina Pantakis, a pensioner from the Greek Cypriot town of Limassol, dressed in her Sunday best and rummaged through old photographs. She was looking for pictures of her ancestral village, Vassilia, which she had not seen in nearly 30 years. She wanted to be sure she recognized it. Pantakis was among more than 10,000 Greek and Turkish Cypriots who last week took advantage of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash's surprise decision to open the border that has divided the island since 1974. "Now that it is finally happening," Pantakis...
...them. This is tantamount to saying that no one can steal—except thieves and pickpockets. Non-discrimination policies are not meant to address organizations which do not discriminate and have no reason to do so; they are necessary precisely to rein in organizations like HRCF—stubborn organizations which insist on discriminating in the face of clear prohibitions against such behavior. By strongly prohibiting already non-discriminatory groups from discriminating and yet opening up a loophole for HRCF, the CCL has made a mockery of the very idea of non-discrimination policies...