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...lower costs and tap a cheaper labor market. About 70% of Xi'an's domestic investment comes from the southeast coast. For example, in late 2008 Shenzhen-based cell-phone maker ZTE announced it would invest $880 million in manufacturing and research facilities in Xi'an that will ultimately employ 26,000 people. Hybrid-car maker BYD, also headquartered in Shenzhen, has turned Xi'an into one of its main manufacturing centers, with almost all of the cars sold to Chinese consumers. Earlier this year, the company launched a $585 million plant expansion to produce another 300,000 cars...
...Jersey for all it was worth. But helping voters get to the polls, sending out operatives to knock on doors, and readying lawyers to make sure polling places operate smoothly—these machine tactics help you win an election, but they are not fraudulent, and both sides employ them when they...
...arts sector back on their feet and working for a common purpose. Some might argue that financing artists should be low on our priority totem pole. But artists are taxpayers, rent-payers, and consumers—just like everyone else. This country has 100,000 nonprofit arts groups, which employ some six million people and contribute $167 billion to the economy per year. Of course, in the long term we could use more engineers and science teachers, but right now we really need more working Americans exchanging goods and services...
Today it is much too easy to conflate the awarding of rights to gay Americans with a government takeover of religious institutions. One fundamental problem is that our laws employ the religious term “marriage” to define what should be solely a legal concept. From Uncle Sam’s perspective, a union of individuals—gay or straight—should be treated as strictly part of the legal apparatus, and not related to a religious ceremony. If we can divorce religious terminology from our legal system, we can afford gay Americans equal rights?...
Quinn, a computer science concentrator, reiterates the multidisciplinary dimension of the show by melding technology with dance. His piece will employ a video installation onstage to complement the energetic movements of his dancers...