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...contrast to listening to the noisy strikers and whining demonstrators who seem to be everywhere these days. Your article showed people unafraid of a radical career change supported in part by American self-confidence as well as our sense of mobility. Seeing new jobs, even if temporary or minimum-wage work, as a challenge is an American answer to dreary job entrenchment and shows our ability to begin again. PATRICIA K. RYAN Ardmore...
...small-business start-ups fail within five years. And yet Europe depends more and more on the bold entrepreneur. Across the region, over half the 120 million private-sector jobs are in small businesses (with fewer than 50 employees). As Europe's industrial giants move jobs to low-wage locales in developing countries, small and medium enterprises (SMES) are the engine of new job growth, accounting for about two-thirds of all new jobs created. What's it like running a small business in a Europe struggling to emerge from recession? To find out - and explore what might be done...
...politician Pim Fortuyn now controls the municipal council of a city in which more than half the population is of non-Dutch origin. Two weeks ago its leaders said the city would start demanding that newcomers speak decent Dutch and have a job paying 20% more than the minimum wage. The council has requested a four-year moratorium on settling more political refugees in the city, and has vowed to stop building low-rent housing to restore "long-term balance" to the Netherlands' second city. The center-right Dutch government, while keen to decrease immigration, has signaled its opposition...
Further implementation of the Wage and Benefits Parity Policy—adopted as part of the recommendations of the committee convened in the aftermath of the 2001 Living Wage sit-in—has also cost the University a great deal, although Berman said the exact amount was hard to estimate...
...perhaps not. Taiwan's tensions with China are once again reaching boiling point, raising the distant but real possibility that Wong's stint in the army might be anything but dull. Last week, a People's Liberation Army general, Peng Guangqian, warned that China is willing to wage war with Taiwan to prevent it from declaring independence?whatever the cost. Writing in a Beijing journal controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, Peng said China would brave a boycott of the Olympic Games, a drop in foreign investment, an economic downturn, even regional instability in order "to uphold national unity...