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...some, that spells job cuts. The British trade union Unite claimed earlier this month that some 7,000 Cadbury workers would be under threat if the proposed takeover went through. Another analyst, Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist at BGC Partners, questioned on Tuesday whether the acquisition would herald "a partial breakup" of the British business. (See a TIME video about a chocolate-bacon...
...After a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Washington state in 2003, 65 nations imposed partial or full bans on U.S. beef, plunging the American beef industry's exports down by over 75%. Those numbers have yet to recover to their 2003 level of over 1.2 million metric tons, even as nations have softened their positions. Japan, the U.S.'s biggest export market, along with Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries retrenched slightly in 2006, instituting new, partials ban on beef parts thought to be prone to potential infection. South Korea lifted its U.S. beef...
...President Obama, the era of big Government is not over. "It is true, we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or generate long-term growth," he proclaimed in his first budget to Congress. But "at this particular moment, government must lead the way." A partial Obama to-do list, only some of it done, includes a remake of the health care and energy sectors; a $787 billion stimulus bill aimed, so far, mostly at public employment; takeovers of General Motors and Chrysler; a "pay czar" to cut salaries at bailed-out banks and a proposed new consumer-protection...
...case you've been under a rock for the past couple months, "The Social Network" is a movie in progress about Mark E. Zuckerberg '06-'07 and his beloved creation, Facebook. A partial cast list was released mid-October, and scenes were filmed at Harvard for a couple of days around Halloween. The movie premieres...
...settlement freeze could also help get the U.S. and other Western powers off Netanyahu's back. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Netanyahu's partial freeze as "unprecedented" even though she had earlier made an unequivocal demand for an absolute freeze with no exceptions. Now, with settlers staging demonstrations, their leaders muttering about civil disobedience and radical rabbis urging young soldiers to disobey orders that might conflict with their religious obligations to inhabit biblical lands, the Israeli leader can tell the West that he would face a civil war if he moved to dismantle settlements...