Most Chinese Happy with Olympics Time Magazine | (WASHINGTON) — Strikingly large numbers of Chinese are happy with their nation's direction and booming economy yet are deeply worried about rising prices, pollution and the gap between the rich and poor, according to a poll released Tuesday. | Two-thirds of Chinese also give their government ...
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Chinese see Olympics helping nation's image San Fransisco Chronicle | (07-23) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- | Overwhelming numbers of Chinese say next month's Olympics will help their country's tattered image abroad, and they predict the Beijing Games will be successful, according to a poll released Tuesday. | The survey, conducted this spring by the nonpartisan Pew Res...
Mazomanie printing plant to close; 125 jobs lost The Examiner MAZOMANIE, Wis. (Map, News) - The Synergy Web Graphics printing plant in Mazomanie will close this fall with about 125 jobs lost. | The closing comes 16 months after Synergy Graphics in Plymouth, Minnesota, bought Sunny Industries from receivership. ...
Speakers had voiced overwhelming support San Diego SAN DIEGO - Trustees of the Southeastern Economic Development Corp. fired longtime President Carolyn Smith last night, despite an outpouring of support from people who appreciated the agency's work in an underserved community. | Online: For the lates...
What's on: Areawide Toledo Blade Areawide | • Christmas in July at Toledo Zoo, where animals will receive special presents filled with species-appropriate treats, July 25. Visit www.toledozoo.org for times and ticket prices. | • A Midsummer Drum Circle, 6:30-7:30 p.m. July...
No Shore Thing Philadelphia Daily News | By Ákos Beöthy | Inquirer Staff Writer | The 21-year-old Bulgarian amusement-park worker fatally struck by a roller coaster this month belonged to a foreign workforce facing a more mundane hardship this year: a dearth of jobs after arriving. | Mari...
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Poll: Many Chinese are happy with country's direction USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | WASHINGTON (AP) — Strikingly large numbers of Chinese are happy with their nation's direction and booming economy yet ...
Health insurance task force ready with recommendations The Business Review | Gov. Ted Strickland will have plenty of options to consider for extending health coverage to Ohio's uninsured when a state panel presents him with its recommendations next we...
Overweight Workers No Worse, Study Says WPXI Stereotypes about overweight workers being lazier, emotionally unstable or harder to get along with are false, according to a Michigan State University professor of human resources...
Contractor or employee? Ask the IRS Houston Chronicle TOOLS | The boss says you're an independent contractor. You think you're an employee. What do you do? | You can ask the Internal Revenue Service to decide. | Workers can fill out a "determination of worker status" form, known as an SS-8. It doesn't c...
Agencies asked to ease safety rules Seattle Post-Intelligence | In its final days in power, the Bush White House is rushing to have federal agencies water down the regulation of hazardous substances, lawmakers and public health experts say. A panel of scientific advisers this week denounced an Environmental Pro...
Farm labor contractor fined in worker's death The Boston Globe | FRESNO, Calif.—The employer of a pregnant teenager who died of heat stroke after pruning grapevines for nine hours in hot weather was hit Wednesday with the highest fine ever issued to a California farming operation. | The California Division...
Iran-US: A study in misperceptions Asia Times | By Hossein Askari | WASHINGTON - In the popular media and even in learned journals and think-tank conferences, the failure of United States-Iran rapprochement is invariably blamed on Washington's insistence on a suspension of Iran's uranium-enrichment program and on Iran's intransigence on the same. | While the obstinacy of both sides may indeed ...
Obama addresses 100,000 people in Berlin as he calls for 'walls between Christians, Muslims and Jews to come down' London Evening Standard | Barack Obama swept into Berlin today to deliver a stirring speech in which he called for greater unity between America and Europe and insisted the 'walls' between Christians, Muslims and Jews must come down. | Addressing thousands of spectators, the U.S. presidential candidate produced a powerful speech which was hotly anticipated on both sides o...
