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...must be counted as work time, for which European law sets a maximum of 48 hours per week. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, head of the union of hospital doctors, said the ruling means another 15,000 doctors must be found to staff the hospitals. Good news for doctors, but the tab may come to €1 billion. "If the hospital's running costs increase, eventually insurance will have to pay additional costs," Montgomery said. Since most Germans are insured through the state, the government could end up footing the bill. Ulla Schmidt, Minister of Health and Social Security, said the extra...
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...African leaders for the delay in getting an ECOWAS force onto the ground may be financial. The Nigerians claim their peacekeeping efforts in neighboring Sierra Leone over the past decade have cost Nigeria $12 billion, and they want assurances that this time the international community will pick up the tab - a call echoed in a U.S.-sponsored resolution currently before the UN Security Council. Besides financial aid, the West African force will also need logistical aid to airlift its troops...
...Genuine Hawaiian aloha shirts from the 1960s and '70s take pride of place on his walls, and a pair of vintage, indigo Big E Levi's hang by the door. "Not for sale," says Preecha. "Just to attract good customers." Levi's, especially Red Tab and Big E versions, as well as Japanese denim brands such as Evisu, are in strong demand with collectors, he says...
...keep some 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan (without whose presence the Karzai government is unlikely to survive), that's an annual bill of $60 billion - about what the first Gulf War cost. The difference, of course, is that in 1991, the Saudis and Japan picked up the tab; this time it'll be the U.S. taxpayer. And coming on top of this week's announcement by the administration of an all-time high in the budget deficit, the administration's goals of remaking the Middle East and of shrinking the U.S. government seem increasingly incompatible...