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...political debate, was refreshing. It is very disheartening that politics has become a constant bashing of opponents instead of focusing on the issues and actually doing something to address them. It's especially discouraging when you consider what good might be done with the funds that are used to wage misdirected political wars...
...political debate, was refreshing. It is very disheartening that politics has become a constant bashing of opponents instead of focusing on the issues and actually doing something to address them. It's especially discouraging when you consider what good might be done with the funds that are used to wage misdirected political wars. Scott A. Farber Boston Prisoner of the Nazis I was stunned to see the term "Polish labor camp" in the Milestone on the death of Navajo code talker Frank Sanache [Sept. 6]. The Nazis organized and ran the German concentration, labor and POW camps of World...
...prices knocks about 0.5% off the euro zone's economic growth. But Jean-Philippe Cotis, the O.E.C.D.'s chief economist, says that unlike the oil shocks of the'70s and early'80s - when the price was almost double in today's dollars - the increases aren't prompting inflationary wage demands, and so far haven't hurt consumer demand. "The impact is modest," Cotis says. His view was confirmed by the U.S. Federal Reserve, which raised a key interest rate last week in a sign that it too believes the U.S. economy is rebounding. - By Peter Gumbel Hiding...
...partnership with NetAid, a New York non-profit organization which supports local organizations in other countries that fight extreme poverty, Redline Textbooks will also donate 10 percent of its pre-wage earnings to improve access to education in developing countries.—Staff Writer Tina Wang can be reached at tinawang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Welt, are bouncing back from a crippling advertising drought. Companies are winning important labor concessions. Siemens just sealed deals with workers in two of its mobile-phone factories to increase the workweek from 35 to 40 hours--with no increase in pay. And DaimlerChrysler won $600 million in wage concessions from its workers after threatening to move 6,000 Mercedes-Benz factory jobs from a Stuttgart suburb to lower-cost factories in northern Germany and South Africa. Such battles are bitterly divisive, but they may be necessary if Germany is to become competitive again. Longer hours without more pay would...