[Futurework] test

2005-06-10 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
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[Futurework] The future of GRIN

2005-06-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
The author also wrote Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. Americans are making the biggest changes in a hundred years in how we build our cities. Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing our Minds, our Bodies What it means to be Human By Joel Garreau, Doubleday, May

[Futurework] More than debt relief

2005-06-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
US and Britain agree on relief for poor nations; The plan would free 18 countries, most of which are in Africa, from any obligation to repay the estimated $16.7 billion they owe the international lenders, said the official, who requested anonymity because a formal announcement of the

[Futurework] FW: United default a threat to all workers

2005-06-10 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Subject: United default a threat to all workers http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11701911.htm Miami Herald May 21, 2005 United default a threat to all workers By Robert V. Callahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last week's United Airlines pension default reveals serious trouble

[Futurework] Irreconcilable differences

2005-06-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
A chilling must read, illuminating why there is fierce disagreement about the timing and integrity of a US withdrawal. The key question, of course, is whether the insurgency would cease and desist in general, or would civil war be escalated? In the US, former Pres. Carter, Senators Biden

RE: [Futurework] FW: United default a threat to all workers

2005-06-10 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
A colleague of mine used to avoid airlines that outsourced maintenance. -Original Message-From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 1:54 PMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; FUTUREWORK (E-mail)Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: United default a threat to all

[Futurework] End of a dream?

2005-06-10 Thread Ed Weick
Ever so many years ago when the world and I were young in rural Saskatchewan some people were able to afford to go to the doctor and get whatever treatment they needed. Otherstook chickens and pigs with them because they had no money. Then along came Tommy Douglas and universal single tier

[Futurework] RE: End of a dream?

2005-06-10 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
I think that some of the problem started when the current PM was Finance Minister in the 90's and hesucceeded in balancing the budget at the expense of cutting the health care budget. Medicare should not be subject to the whims of politicians. As to the present mess it really does look