Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...some Indonesian students, we spoke with scores of workers and did some rudimentary "faux bargaining" calculations. Had the workers won a meager seniority clause increase of 15 cents per worker per day for each year of seniority, a worker with four years' experience would earn $1.70 a day, instead of $1.10. This does not sound like much money, but in this huge factory, it would cost the contractor $10,000 a day! No wonder the vast majority of Nike contractors have set up shop where bosses can refuse to bargain with workers...
...Instead of just sitting there, these folks tended to take their profits and run. After all, what's the sense of being filthy rich if you don't lighten your portfolio or unload your overvalued securities in time...
...year-old farmer from Meiyou village was not really surprised. Canting, the second oldest of his five children, was the most ambitious. Slightly built but with a surprisingly deep voice and an earnest air of self-assurance, No. 2 Son always wanted more than the village offered. Instead of carousing in the karaoke bars, he tried to set up his own business. He went south to Xiamen to trade seafood, but ended up losing money in the fickle, seasonal business. Undaunted, he was now attempting something far more audacious. He would entrust his fate to the "snakeheads" who illicitly spirit...
...good are these daughters of legends really? And is women's boxing truly a sport or merely what Fight Game editor Bert Sugar dismisses as "Baywatch with gloves on"? The women's game has the same 18 weight classes as men's boxing, but rounds last two minutes instead of three, and many fighters are relative novices who have turned pro after few if any amateur matches, as compared with the 20-plus bouts that male fighters tend to have...
Thanks to widespread leaking, just about everybody in Washington and Miami woke up Friday morning confident that Reno was ready to move. But instead, in a last-minute twist, the Attorney General was in her cavernous fifth-floor office at Main Justice, on the telephone with a group of fellow Miamians who thought they could still persuade the relatives to turn the boy over to his father...