Word: persons
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...taken a while, but Europe's leaders have begun to recognize the need for labor reforms along lines familiar in the U.S. They have started to talk about promoting lifelong learning, lowering taxes on labor and increasing the gap between what a person gets on welfare vs. on the job. Indeed, Europe's overall fiscal health and strong growth prospects present a golden opportunity to launch those moves. But like all other opportunities, it may be fleeting. Says Romano Prodi, head of the European Commission, the regulatory arm of the E.U.: "We must act now, because the challenges facing...
Robinson's wife and four children released a statement calling him "a loving and caring husband and father," adding that they "did not know the person whom we have read and heard about on TV." At the QT filling station down the road from Robinson's farm, where he regularly stopped for gas and soda, the manager put it a little differently: "I guess there are a lot of people who don't know a lot about...
...private conversation, but I explained what had happened with Tony's health. I hadn't actually talked to Bill for, I don't know, six or eight weeks. He'd been traveling and so forth. And then I told him that I thought that he was the right person to take over as chairman and that I'd like him to do it. And he took a deep breath and he said, well, I'd like to talk with you about it over a cup of coffee. I said, 'OK, I'll hold the phone; go make some coffee...
...these markets were a person, they'd be Woody Allen. Upon receipt of more good news about the soft landing Tuesday from the Commerce Department - retail sales dropped 0.3 percent in May and were revised down again for April, the first consecutive drop since the summer of 1998 - investors' neuroses kicked in. Suddenly, the worry wasn't that Alan Greenspan would raise rates again at month's end. It was that he'd already gone too far. Tech selling slid the NASDAQ down on the news, and financials did the same to the Dow. Consumers, the heroes of the expansion...
...were dumped on a desert island with few supplies and 15 contentious comrades, a few questions would present themselves. Are you a people person? Would you eat rats? Could you start a fire with your eyeglasses? But the ultimate question would be, Are you in the demo...