Word: todays
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...cannery's office, applications in hand. If there is one thing that people in General Santos can count on, it's the West's insatiable appetite for canned tuna. Global imports have skyrocketed from less than 3 million tons per year in 1976 to over 3.5 billion today. "Demand is very high," says Mariano Fernandez, Ocean Canning's general manager. "Raw material is the problem...
...popularity shows, Switzerland has yet to make its peace with immigrants, despite how central to the economy they have been and - with a falling birth rate and aging population - are still. Postwar Switzerland was built by Italian "guest workers," many of whom eventually won the right to settle, and today perhaps a quarter of the nation's workforce are non-Swiss...
...been my experience. Working in a female-dominated profession, I repeatedly hear women express frustration that there don't seem to be many real men anymore. Men express confusion that their efforts not to be domineering leave them disdained by those women. The irony is that many men today try to be the sensitive, nonabrasive types that the women's movement said women would want. But in fact, many women do not want these new men and are sometimes willing to saddle themselves with jerks just to avoid them...
...order to qualify. I also wonder if "most folks" would be willing to regularly jump out of bed at 2 a.m. and run to the hospital. Would "most folks" consider this job "being your own boss" after they learn about the enormous regulatory and financial pressures on physicians today from insurance, federal rules and malpractice liability? Then whatever independence physicians might still enjoy would be removed under Kluger's proposals. Would "most folks" still be interested...
...open to compromise than either his champions or his critics prefer to admit. He may have called the Soviet Union an "evil empire," but he was not above negotiating with it. While others saw the enmity between the superpowers as immutable, he insisted that change was possible. And though today he is revered by foreign policy hawks, Reagan's greatest successes were achieved not through the use of force but by persuasion, dialogue and diplomacy. (See pictures of President Obama visiting Berlin...