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...work harder and smarter. You can't export company culture over the Internet. And you can't build the kind of trust and loyalty that team members need to share when they are working under a deadline 6,000 miles apart. Virtual-management consultants say bosses must--at a minimum--visit in person when offices or projects start up and at major milestones...
...help offset losses in other areas, and North America's normally pro-trade farmers are worried. Says Shawn Stevenson, a citrus and pistachio farmer in California's San Joaquin Valley: "It's hard to compete against folks who don't have the regulatory burden we do, or a minimum wage, or high fuel prices." Brazilian producers of frozen, concentrated orange juice are thirstily eyeing the U.S. market, in which they once enjoyed a 45% share. That was before the U.S. industry got Washington to impose whopping 63% tariffs, slashing Brazil's slice of the $8 billion market to just...
...that Democratic leader Richard Gephardt complained that the increased hard-money limits directly to Daschle. He was especially angered by plans to tie the limits to the inflation rate. "If politicians make their special-interest money indexable for inflation," said a Democratic leadership aide, "they ought to index the minimum wage for working people...
...partly to study "sequestering" carbon--stripping the greenhouse element from hydrocarbons, burying it underground and burning the hydrogen that remains as clean fuel. "You can run a company on the basis that you only do what the law demands," says Browne. "We use compliance with the law as a minimum and then go beyond that...
...Still, bridging the gulf between Beijing's and Washington's minimum requirements for ending the standoff may require some particularly creative diplomacy that allows each side to give a little without appearing - at least to their own public - to be giving anything. The kind of formula that in some parts of the U.S. might be called "lawyering...