Chris Burford wrote:
Doesn't a sandwichboard get in the way?
I've designed a very light and comfortable one from corrugated plastic.
You sound like a sort of amiable electronic sophist, enigmatically
wandering from city state to city state attracting curious attention and
playing with the
[Isn't corporate democracy a contradiction in terms and didn't the Italians
have a name for what's happening?]
full article at http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0107-01.htm
Published on Sunday, January 7, 2001 in the Boston Globe
Our New Corporate Republic
by James K. Galbraith
WITH THE
At 20:05 03/01/01 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
Yes and no. The internet puts a premium on speed reading in these kinds of
back-and-forth instant gratification messagings. My sense is that's how most
people use it most of the time. But it can also function as a big baggy,
searchable archive of
Here are a couple of more pieces on "dergegulation".. I put the term in
quotes because the deregulation is quite limited and as the conservative
articles rightly point out there is still plenty of regulation- such as
price caps. Regulations that increase the problems while attempting to solve
Apropos Chavez and labor:
Report: Labor Nominee Chavez Housed Illegal Alien
Linda Chavez, President-elect George W. Bush's nominee for labor
secretary, allowed a Guatemalan woman who was in the United States
illegally to live in her home and gave the woman spending money, ABC
reported January
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2001
RELEASED TODAY: Employment rose modestly in December, and the unemployment
rate was unchanged at 4.0 percent. Total non-farm payroll employment
increased by 105,000, as gains in government and other service-producing
industries more than
Jobs Byte
By Dean Baker
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Le Monde Diplomatique, 15 December 2000
CHINA WOOS THE MARKET
Farewell to the land of the Little Red Book
Twenty years after it launched its economic reform programme, China is
preparing to join the WTO and become part of the world's new free trade
system. Senior officials in Beijing say
China's jobless find voice
Richard McGregor reports from Shenyang
Financial Times, Dec. 30
The first time the authorities cut their meagre dole payments, Wang Jun and
thousands of other laid-off workers responded with a sit-down protest at a
busy Shenyang intersection until they were
