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...personally responsible for the content of the film, Bird somehow still seems awed by the final product. “One of my favorite parts of the film is the setting—it takes place in a retro type city but sill has many high tech gadgets…it’s this wonderful fusion that our animators were able to achieve...
...During Bush's last term, the outsourcing industry in Asia grew at an astonishing rate. Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest exporter of software services, saw its revenues surge 44% between July and September this year, compared with the same period last year; revenues at Infosys, another major Indian tech firm, grew 51%. Many U.S. companies aren't just sending call-center jobs and low-end software programming abroad; they're using India's enormous pool of highly qualified and cheap labor to cut their research-and-development budgets. Google, for instance, opened an R.-and-D. center in Bangalore...
...Asian outsourcing firms hope Bush will now give them a further boost by increasing the annual quota of American H-1B visas. Indian tech companies rely on these visas?which allow skilled foreigners to migrate to the U.S. for three years?to send teams of software engineers to clients' American offices for on-site training. But current U.S. law restricts the number of H-1B visas to only 65,000 a year?woefully inadequate to meet the Indian tech companies' needs. Without more visas, India's outsourcers will have to hire Americans to do their on-site work?which would...
...international law. ASIA China's boom makes it an indispensable economic partner for Europe and the U.S., but its cheap wages and huge trade surplus lie behind popular complaints about "exporting American jobs" - which Bush may need to respond to. Washington doesn't want European companies to sell high-tech defense goods to Beijing that might give it an edge in a fight over Taiwan. The U.S. has said it can't tolerate a nuclear-armed North Korea, but if no deal is struck, a confrontation - and perhaps a regional nuclear arms race - becomes a more likely scenario. FISCAL...
...division boats sailed in Tech dinghies, with Johnson skippering and junior Ruth Schlitz crewing for the Crimson. The duo began by placing ninth or higher in their first four races, but picked up better position as the regatta unfolded, winning the last two races to place sixth...