Word: switzerland
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...when BMW decided ten years ago to open a factory in central England, the enginemaker struck a deal with the British government to jointly finance a German-style apprenticeship program. Likewise, in 1995 a small consortium of manufacturing companies in North Carolina - that now includes firms headquartered in Germany, Switzerland and Austria - approached high schools and community colleges in the Charlotte area to develop Apprenticeship 2000, a four-year program for students interested in technical careers. The participants, who are recruited as 11th-graders and must maintain a 2.5 grade-point average, get paid to attend community college and, upon...
...bureaucratic level. There's a general sclerosis in the public sector, and it's no different in big companies. But this law isn't the answer. It was forced down our throats, it creates job insecurity and it's discriminatory. In countries like the U.S., England or Switzerland, where they have a very liberal economic system, or even in the Scandinavian countries where there is a bit more job security, a law like the cpe would have passed without a fuss. Not here. I think it's completely abnormal to be fired at the drop...
...storm troopers to meet the flowers and colored balloons of a peaceful people's march with clubs, tear gas and stun grenades, I happened to overhear a Western observer. The gentleman, apparently Italian, was admiring the impeccable organization of Lukashenko's election: all so orderly, just like in Switzerland, he enthused. Well, yes, order is admirable - didn't the trains run on time under Mussolini, which doesn't always happen in Italy under democracy? That's the eternal problem: democracy is messy, dictatorship is orderly and solemn - not unlike a cemetery...
...that's not the only reason Sweden was rated the world's second greenest nation (just behind New Zealand) in a study issued at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Sweden's leaders have passed laws that would be unthinkable for a U.S. politician--taxes on fuel and CO2 emissions to induce car owners to trade in their gas guzzlers for hybrids, for example, and tax exemptions for home owners who switch from oil heating to renewable energy. Indeed, whereas Americans are likely to complain about higher taxes or infringements on their rights, most Swedes seem...
...poor regions of the world. The shift “has the potential to be one of the three most important economic events in the last millennium, alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution,” Summers said last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. —Javier C. Hernandez contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...