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...could screw with our heads," says a U.S. official, "he probably would." When the interrogators' report reached Washington last Wednesday, it triggered a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush Administration officials. There was plenty of skepticism. And no one wanted to upset the banking sector with an unnecessary alert. (A warning issued the previous Monday was traced to a hoax perpetrated by a Dutch teenager...
...Disney has already made a similar move. And once again the private sector, whether it's out of fear of regulation or simply to woo and retain employees, has a way of staying ahead of new political wills and new laws that generally just make things more complicated for employers and employees alike...
...meeting times adding up to much more than the six hours the BCC website claims) and members are even expected to turn down job offers in any city that lacks a branch of the church. Money is one of the motivating factors in this policy. Jim Brown, a BCC sector leader, was quoted as saying in a personal budget workshop in 1997, “I believe that people that aren’t getting promoted need to be talked to—why not? Is it the company’s problem—could be?...
...energy is the one sector that no one else wants to see go up right now. Higher fuel prices are bad for the exact businesses that are still recovering from Sept. 11 - namely airlines, transportation, tourism and travel, not to mention the slowdown's long-time whipping boy, manufacturing. And if economists have said it once, they've said it a million times - all that adds up to a virtual tax hike on consumers, upon whose open wallets this nascent recovery depends...
...been an easy 28 years for Amtrak. The national railroad company, which has continuously operated at a loss since its inception, is now in danger of being terminated. Since January, the bipartisan Amtrak Reform Council has called for the company to break up, selling its profitable routes to private sector companies while the government maintains responsibility for the rest. The time has come for the government to make a difficult choice: to reinforce and improve the national railway system or to cut off government funding completely. Although Amtrak is plagued by a multitude of problems, a national rail system must...