Word: unionizers
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...early stages of economic development, a nation's principal exports are almost always farm products and basic manufactures based on them, like textiles and clothing. But in both the U.S. and the European Union, the farm lobby is powerful. In the U.S., for example, domestic producers have long succeeded in imposing quotas on sugar imported from the Caribbean, though it is one of the islands' crops of comparative advantage. European governments, with the French at the fore, have always sought protection for their farmers as a way of preserving the rural environment and village life. Nick Stern, chief economist...
...have a history with Rodriguez. In 2003, the team agreed to trade Manny Ramirez for the then-reigning AL MVP. However, the player's union rejected the pay cut Rodriguez had agreed to take. The deal died. This time around, would the Sox meet A-Rod's demands, which might reach upwards of $30 million a year? When I asked Lucchino if the Red Sox would pursue the superstar, he responded: "I'm not going to approach that tonight...
...door to Babkir's store, and scores of tiny Korean taxis dodge donkey carts in El Fasher's sand-covered streets. Other shops sell jars of the powdered milk drink Ovaltine, and tubs of Camembert cheese bearing made-in-France labels. "There's high demand ever since the African Union and the aid agencies came here," says Babkir, whose prices rise when the rainy season turns the roads leading here from Khartoum into quagmires...
...prose stylist--the Updike--of his generation, has written a novel about superhero comics; a fantasy tale; a mystery starring an old man who may or may not be Sherlock Holmes; and a pulp crime book set in an alternate time. (That last would be The Yiddish Policemen's Union, about a murder in a what-if world where Alaska becomes a homeland for the Jews, or as they're called there, "the frozen Chosen.") Chabon is still a literary novelist, but he's having a hot, star-crossed flirtation with the "popular" genres. He riffs on them, toys with...
...telling that last year the Army relaxed a similar tattoo policy to help bolster its numbers. There are no statistics indicating what effect the bans have had on law-enforcement hiring, but there is evidence that cops aren't happy. A few months ago, the police-officers union in Anne Arundel County, Md., filed a grievance against the department. So far the courts have been staunchly antitattoo. Last year a federal appeals court in Hartford, Conn., upheld a ruling that required officers to cover up spiderweb tattoos--a symbol of white supremacy--setting a precedent that such ordinances...