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...service sector is counterbalancing the anemic manufacturing segment. Professional, business and technical services keep adding jobs, as companies outsource work like network maintenance and advertising. Bush's tax cuts, as well as the mortgage-refinancing rush, put cash in consumers' pockets, leaving them with more to spend at restaurants and bars--where employment bloomed by 113,000 over the year...
...INDICATORS Time's Up Internet icon Martha Lane Fox announced she would step down as managing director of Lastminute.com, the British online retailer she co-founded in 1998. The group announced an annual pre-tax profit...
...Tourists are left dazzled, not just by the variety and quality of merchandise on display, but also by the sheer quantity of it: there are 10 tons of gold on sale at the souq at any given time. And you won't find better value anywhere. With no sales tax and low customs duties, gold traded in Dubai is cheaper than in the countries in which it originates. Prices can be driven down still further by a bit of traditional Middle Eastern haggling. If bargaining isn't your style, the Gold and Diamond Park on Sheikh Zayed Road offers...
...campaign issue, and last week the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry (headed by New Komeito Diet member Chikara Sakaguchi) submitted a plan calling for an increase in the government's share of pension financing, with the added expenses to be funded by canceling a series of income tax cuts. Many prominent LDP members claim that this scheme will put Japan's fragile economic recovery at risk. Japan's scheduled 2004 dispatch of troops to Iraq, opposed by many in the New Komeito, is another potential political battleground...
...Democratic presidential debate how she could help to improve the United States as president, Moseley Braun did not mention her plan for a universal, single-payer health care system in her response. Nor did she cite her opposition to the war in Iraq, her support for canceling the Bush tax cuts, how she voted for more federal aid for education or how ardently she wants to protect the social security system. No, Moseley Braun had a more persuasive argument in mind: “If you really want to change the political system and the political culture, my approach...