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...Jeez, still?" Visitors--you get more office drop-bys when you have a weird walking desk than when you have doughnuts--sweetly avert their eyes as the weight question comes up. Apart from that, my week using it was not unlike a regular workweek. Here's the, ahem, rundown...
...presidential election - is both pragmatic and popular. She has nevertheless been derided by opponents as lacking a credible platform and accused of wanting the top spot to advance another run at the presidency in 2012. Meanwhile, Martine Aubry is the architect of France's now defunct 35-hour workweek; she is known as a tried and tested traditional leftist seeking to take the party back to its roots. However, she generates resistance and even disdain within both the party and the public, who see her as stuck in an ideologically rigid era that has passed. Both women had been written...
...share of drama. The daughter of former European Commission President Jacques Delors, Aubry, 58, was named to successive government posts after establishing herself as a major mover in the PS and among Socialist legislators. In 2000 she became the target of conservative ire when her law reducing France's workweek to 35 hours was adopted. (It was gutted by Sarkozy's government last July...
...higher demand and command higher prices - up to about $250,000 a year. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2006 National Compensation Survey, pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters nationwide made an average of $23 an hour, or about $46,000 annually for a typical 40-hour workweek. But those numbers lump different occupations together and don't give a complete picture of the current market. A pipelayer, for example, mostly installs pipes, while pipefitters and steamfitters install, maintain and repair pipe systems...
...benefit of the American people and still also be idealistic about the things we can do better, that's how we got here. That is how women got the right to vote. That's how African Americans got citizenship. That's how workers got the 40-hour workweek. That's how we're going to solve the problems that we face right...