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...Indications are that job losses will be worse in December and early next year," says Jayson Myers, president of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, the country's largest trade and industry association whose membership includes automakers...
...However, most Crimson athletes in science would not trade the extra hindrances they encounter for a more flexible, but different course of study. Whether pursuing a career in medicine and the sciences, or a simple passion for the subject matter, these athletes are willing to endure various time strains to accomplish their goals...
...rules vary from country to country. In the U.S., any business transaction must be recorded and reported to the IRS; tax levies apply as if the trade were made in cash. As Squires puts it, professional services are subject to income tax, but for noncommercial transactions, barter rules hold. "If I bake a cake for you, that's not a taxable event," he says...
Andrew Rose, Bernard T. Rocca Professor of International Trade at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, sees local currencies as limited by their unwieldiness. "Money is primarily just a convenience for enabling exchanges between two parties. The more widely accepted, the more convenient it is," he says. If you need to use different currencies in different locations, the money then becomes less convenient...
...news, of course, is that many such provincial officials are little more than warlords, who often profit from trafficking in opium. The United Nations estimated last month that the Taliban and its allies - including some of those provincial officials - could clear nearly $500 million in the drug trade this year. If the U.S. and its allies need to find a way to bring home their troops while leaving behind a modicum of security, they may find themselves forced to settle for something less than a happy ending...