Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Longer range, says Gary Dugan, London-based global equity strategist for the J.P. Morgan investment bank, many investors think Europe is moving too slowly to reform the tax, labor and regulatory restrictions that make it a less attractive target for capital than the U.S. And though rising interest rates may eventually slow American growth, right now they increase the already substantial premium that investments in the U.S. pay over investments in other countries...
...triumph of quality over quantity. According to the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, an independent think tank, the U.S. is home to about 26.3 million immigrants, defined as people living in the U.S. who are foreign born and have permission to stay permanently. India's 722,000 is less than the number from the Dominican Republic. Some 15,000 to 20,000 Indians get student visas to the U.S. each year, and many manage to land jobs after graduation and stay on. But Japan gets three times that number, and South Korea double. The only category in which India...
Lundberg is thought to be the highest paid executive in Warsaw, though all she will say is that she's earned less than she would have made in the U.S. over the same period. If she didn't have Polish roots to start with, she's tried to grow them on the job. In 1994 Lundberg bought a home on the outskirts of Warsaw (relocating six families in the process) and characteristically took it down to bare bricks before renovating from scratch with the help of renowned local artisans. She can follow a conversation in Polish, and her two children...
Such arguments undermine the government's case on its weakest leg: proving that consumers have somehow been hurt by Microsoft's actions. The more Microsoft can make its behavior seem proconsumer, the less appropriate the government's draconian remedy will appear--and the more likely the higher courts will toss the case back to Jackson for a less severe punishment...
...mood is less brave than bleak on the moor of Tweedy's farm, in the mid-'50s. Mrs. Tweedy, the vicious camp commandant (voiced by Miranda Richardson), and her slow-witted, henpecked husband (Tony Haygarth) have shown her prisoners what happens to a hen who hasn't laid eggs: it becomes a chicken with its head cut off. This fowl existence is driving even Ginger (Julia Sawalha, known to U.S. viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson...