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...employment website. Especially hard-hit is the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, Taiwan's version of Silicon Valley, where more than 90% of the world's notebook computers, motherboards and cable modems, to name a few leading products, are made. It's also where most U.S. companies turn to subcontract manufacturing of their high-tech goods. (See the worst business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forced Vacations for Taiwan Tech Workers | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...hold as much as 50 billion barrels. Nor will the trans-nationals be able to build and run refineries on Mexican soil as Calderon proposed in his bill filed in April. The thrust of the new law approved Tuesday is simply to allow government oil monopoly Pemex to subcontract foreign companies to explore and drill in specific parts of Mexico. Furthermore, crucial clauses allow Pemex to be able pay those companies by performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Up Mexico's Oil to Foreigners: A First Step | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...prosperity among its restive farmers, who have largely been bypassed by China's economic boom. Currently, farmers are entitled to the proceeds from their sales but do not own the land--a system easily exploited by corrupt officials and developers. Beijing hopes the reforms--enabling farmers to lease, swap, subcontract and transfer land-use rights--will help double the average disposable income among the nation's 730 million rural residents, to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...last time the town addressed the issue, it had legislated a quota allowing only one professional fortune-teller per 10,000 Salem residents. That amounted to roughly three psychics, although another nine or so were grandfathered in. The city council also licensed some psychic stores, which were allowed to subcontract to five fortune-telling workers apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting Witches Be Witches in Salem | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

...Baker report, the fruit of a 10-member bipartisan panel created by Congress, sought - but failed to find - any silver bullet to reverse the slide in Iraq. Like many such efforts that subcontract the thinking that Americans expect to be done by their President and lawmakers, the panel appears set to recommend goals without specifying the tools to achieve them. It will declare that the U.S. military presence in Iraq not be open-ended while simultaneously refusing to set a timetable for its withdrawal. At the same time it will call - as has incoming defense chief Robert Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Iraq Bleeds, the U.S. Policy Cupboard is Bare | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

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