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...potential rule infringements as well reveling in the scantier costumes. Women skaters' dresses have become ever more slight, with the acreage of flesh-colored fabric far exceeding the traditional sequins. And then there are knickers, or more specifically, the amount of fabric in the crotch area. European women skaters tend to be less careful than their American counterparts. U.S. champion Michelle Kwan's costumes have very concealing 10-cm gussets, while some of the European stars' undergarments are a skimpy 3 cm wide. Bryan Morris, editor of Ice Link magazine, sees no difference between skaters' costumes and those in other...
...female managers in that industry earned only 62[cents]. In communications, women in management went from 86[cents] to 73[cents]. ONE THEORY to explain the widening wage gulf is that in the booming labor market of the late '90s, job applicants could aggressively negotiate salaries. Research shows men tend to be better at it than women...
...creating the 2008 Olympic plan for Beijing, and during that process we noticed that one of the key differences between holding games here and abroad is that abroad you can start building from the ground up and in a very concentrated area - while here in the states we tend to already have existing structures. So here it's a matter of retrofitting and dealing with a sprawling area...
...drive in and they might stay anywhere within a 50-mile radius. So people are spread out all over the place, in little clumps of crowds. And ironically, the issue of crowd control has never really been paramount at U.S. games because, as I mentioned before, we do tend to gear our events towards freedom of movement...
...particular business and, correctly, see that its employees would be better off if the company were forced to pay a wage that reflects some benchmark living standard rather than the principles of supply and demand. The resulting misdirection of labor and underemployment, however, means that overall real wages tend to fall, not rise. What labor activists see as a victory for labor is typically a victory for relatively overpaid, underemployed union protected workers over unskilled, unprotected workers and consumers. Nor is the solution of protecting all workers from market forces a viable option, because this implies abandoning the very market...