Word: unionizers
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...highest in Europe, both east and west, and it's not just school leavers with few or no qualifications who can't land a job. More than 7% of French university graduates in their late 20s are unemployed - one of the worst records in the European Union and about 50% higher than the E.U. average. Moreover, many of the jobs that are available to young people, even highly skilled ones, tend to be short-term and poorly paid. That's a consequence of a skewed labor market, which provides so much protection to full-time employees that firms are reluctant...
...fair Harvard, the boys-are-bad trend is alive and well. Earlier this semester, the Harvard student group Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) hosted a “Fuck The Man” party. Though the group assured that it was merely a “feminist dance party,” and that its tagline was not an “anti-male slogan,” the title was tough to stomach. The hosting of a “Fuck The Woman” party surely would’ve had the national media swarming Harvard Yard. Semantics...
Plokhii left the Soviet Union to teach full-time in Alberta in 1991, just after witnessing the attempted August Coup in Moscow against then-premier Mikhail Gorbachev, an event that marked the beginning of the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
...outcome is a significant boost for Iran's pragmatists led by Ali Larijani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and who is also Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator. Last year, Ahmadinejad's hard-line opposition had helped scuttle a deal Larijani was crafting in discussion with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana that involved a temporary suspension of Iran's enrichment program. In announcing the release of the Britons, Ahmadinejad signaled that the more radical faction of Iran's leadership would not stand in the way of Larijani's dealings with the West. The question...
...government by unelected bureaucrats. Endemic corruption is beyond repair. Is that the price of easier travel and cleaner beaches? Free trade and freely negotiated agreements among sovereign nations - that's what we need. Not this lumbering, inefficient dinosaur that has too much in common with the former Soviet Union. The Europeans are neighbors of us Brits. They should be our friends. They cannot be our masters. Many Europeans want us to leave the door open when we exit - as we surely will. Ashley Mote, Member of European Parliament, BRUSSELS...