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Another breakthrough that may help German women is a welter of decisions coming out of the European Union. A finding by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg puts the onus on the employer to prove it did not discriminate when a pregnant woman is fired. That could strengthen the hand of women like Breloh--who has found a solution. She has set up her own agency with some of her former clients, and it is expanding. In the long run, if companies don't adapt to changing times, they may find that their former female managers have become their...
Lloyd's denies any wrongdoing and will defend itself vigorously. The insurance behemoth "has never been found guilty of fraud," says spokesman Adrian Beeby. Lloyd's has already beaten back a welter of legal actions in Britain. But it faces more charges on this side of the Atlantic. The U.S. Attorney in New York City has made Lloyd's the target of an intensive criminal investigation. And in a pivotal case due for trial early next year before a California state court in Los Angeles, a father and two daughters who lost heavily in Lloyd's have brought allegations...
...vigor rarely travel in tandem, but TIME's Board of Economists called for hefty measures of both as members looked at the prospects for a dynamic world economy. Global megamergers, lofty stock valuations, the exponential growth of the Internet--the salient features of the dawning 21st century are a welter of challenges for the world's investors, business leaders and workers. No one doubts that the future is volatile. The question is whether--and for whom--volatility translates into vulnerability...
Meaning what? The anarchist movement today is a sprawling welter of thousands of mostly young activists populating hundreds of mostly tiny splinter groups espousing dozens of mostly socialist critiques of the capitalist machine. Ironically, the groups are increasingly organized; the Pacific Northwest in particular, with its unionist past, grungy youth-culture present and ever Green future, is an anarchist hotbed. Add to that the hundreds of under-25ers from San Francisco to Vancouver who spent months learning nonviolent civil disobedience from groups like the Ruckus Society and the Direct Action Network. "The WTO," notes Ruckus Society coordinator Han Shan, "gave...
...easy. In that show, he could impress the viewer with bombshells (real ones); in Millennium (CNN, Sundays through Dec. 12, 10 p.m. E.T.), he has to astonish us with what we already know. This 10-hour, chronological series doesn't always succeed, but at its best, its hyper welter of history renders the familiar surprising...