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...they speak about acquaintances who have been fired as if they'd been afflicted with a horrible disease. Many Japanese commentators claim that high unemployment is unacceptable because the nation does not have a well-developed social-welfare system?not seeming to realize that allowing an estimated 17 million surplus workers to remain on the nation's payrolls is a much more expensive version of the same thing...
While deficits loom over the State House, Cambridge actually has $28 million in surplus cash on hand to deal with emergencies. And in recent years the city has increased the amount of property taxes it can levy, which will lend the city council more flexibility when discussions on next year’s budget begin in several weeks...
...wine trade, should have listed wine production by country in billions of gallons rather than millions of gallons, as several alert readers pointed out. The second chart, on the Global Investing page, misrepresented the health of two corporate pension plans. As of Aug. 30, Sempra Energy had a pension surplus of $168 million, and Allegheny Technologies had a pension deficit of $32 million, according to revised estimates by UBS Warburg. We attributed our figures to a UBS study, but after we published the story, UBS amended its estimates, saying it found it had begun its study with faulty data...
...their Houses during the summer for retrieval at the start of the next term. Each year, they are reminded that the items are not insured by the College, and that they are storing at their own risk. Yet so many students have taken advantage of this option that the surplus items have spilled out of predetermined storage areas into hallways and other forbidden areas, earning the College a citation from the Cambridge Fire Department...
...surplus lending was, in Hudson's opinion, extraordinary and unexplained. "I can think of no good commercial reason for ... these features of the structure, and have seen no evidence of any," Hudson wrote. "I conclude, based on the evidence I have seen, that it is probable that the transaction, taken as a whole, was both fraudulent and corrupt." Hudson's report found a responsive audience in Baldeosingh, who stopped Petrotrin from doing business with Citibank and pushed the government to investigate. "We had an opportunity to recover a significant amount of money," Baldeosingh says. Instead, Trinidad's elected officials turned...