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...factory. While companies happily tapped India for its well-trained and low-cost IT-engineering talent, they've placed their bets on China as a manufacturing center. Although exports of manufactured goods from India grew 20% to approximately $70 billion in its last fiscal year, that's just one-tenth of the $700 billion China exported in 2005. Manufacturing accounts for only about 16% of India's GDP. In China, its share is more than twice as large...
...workers are employed, have seen their earnings advance in parallel. Over the past three years, the median household income in the city has grown nearly 3%, from $39,643 to $40,699, adjusted for inflation. And annual janitorial-job turnover, as high as 300% in Cincinnati, is just one-tenth that rate in Pittsburgh. As a result, contractors' costs for recruitment and training are significantly lower. "For a community and its families, wage gains for low-income workers mean the difference between living precariously at the edge of the economy and having a stake in the American Dream," says Beth...
...website of the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), which was responsible for administering the questionnaire. Even factoring in the money allocated to childcare and the salaries and operational costs associated with Hammonds’ office, it seems unlikely that the final sum approaches one tenth of the total. There is little question that the money can be spent, professor’s say. According to Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Philip A. Kuhn, a department must have $4 million in the bank for every endowed senior professorship of the kind...
...between the Western and Islamic worlds after September 11th. Eliza Griswold, another Nieman fellow and a freelance journalist whose byline has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Magazine, will study the antagonism of Christianity and Islam in nations along the Tenth Parallel. International fellows researching the Middle East include Finnish editor Patsy Nakell, who will study the early 20th century history of American policy in the region, and Anja Niedringhaus, an Associated Press photographer from Germany, who will study culture, history, and gender issues in the Middle East. Other fellows will...
...before closing out the season by finishing ninth at the Winterbury Carnival. “It’s a step up from 10th place, where we’ve traditionally been,” nordic coach Peter Graves said, referencing the team’s propensity to finish tenth the previous season. While the Crimson finished reliably ninth and generally near the bottom of the pack, the team noticed improvement over the course of the season that wasn’t necessarily reflected in the rankings. “I’m really pleased the way the technique...