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...starts pumping again. "Let's keep our eye on the vision. The vision is a much better Iraq--it's already better--but one with a freely elected government and all the rest of it: human rights and all that. An Iraq where we get a vibrant sector going, so people have jobs. It's going to take time...
...gifts. Thanks in part to the granny-grabber factor, children's clothes have been a consistent bright spot in an otherwise rocky retail environment. "The children's market has bucked the trend," says Marshal Cohen, co-president of the market-research firm NPDFashionworld. "It's the only apparel sector that grew...
There are some signs of recovery, especially in the service sector, which accounts for 80% of U.S. employment. Although the economy has shed 394,000 jobs since the end of January, the S&P 500 index is up nearly 8.5% so far this year, and the lowest interest rates since 1958 are keeping the housing market strong. But by Straszheim's bearish reckoning, full-year growth for 2003 may amount to little more than 2%. That could pose a problem not just for workers but also for President Bush as he gears up for the 2004 election. If things...
...honeymoon in Bali. He stayed for 12 years, starting a guide service that grew into Pacto, which, he says, "was and is the largest travel company in the Republic of Indonesia," with a staff of 500. When the government changed the law, prohibiting foreigners from owning businesses in that sector of tourism, Purser accepted a job with the U.N. Development Program and served a stint as director general of tourism in Vanuatu...
...holidaymakers of their summer culture fix. The demonstrations by performance workers - from actors and choreographers to roadies - are part of a rising tide of opposition to the reforms planned by the government of conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and President Jacques Chirac. In May and June, public-sector workers launched crippling nationwide strikes, and a week ago Corsicans narrowly rejected a referendum intended to launch Raffarin's effort to decentralize power to regional capitals. But as arts workers took France's beloved (and lucrative) festival season hostage to protest cutbacks in their unemployment benefits, summer itself seemed under siege...