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5/3/2004; 3:26:41 PM
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004 |
Making Workforce Housing Work. "Around the Baltimore and Washington suburbs, young professionals, teachers, police officers and firefighters are struggling to find homes they can afford. Many are forced to move out of the state or relocate to traditionally rural sections of southern and western Maryland and the Eastern Shore." According to a housing expert at ULI, "rapid population rise and stagnating salaries for the middle class have made workforce housing a national problem." Tue, 06 Apr 2004 06:00:00 PDT [PLANetizen: Front Page]
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Globalization vs. Americanization. While McDonald's golden arches may be proliferating in every major metropolis across the world, so, for that matter, are Thai and Vietnamese restaurants. [AlterNet]
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Global trade booming but risk loom, says WTO. According to the WTO's latest figures, world trade recovered at a 4.5 percent expansion rate in 2003, and is expected to expand even more strongly BVOM.com Apr 6 2004 9:55AM GMT
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U.S. steel, textile mills sold to Asia. PITTSBURGH, April 6 (UPI) -- A growing number of U.S. textile and steel mills are shutting down and being shipped to Asia where labor costs are lower. Washington Times Apr 6 2004 2:01PM GMT
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British Rail pension buys into hedge fund. The chief investment officer at the Rail Pension Fund (Railpen), Chris Hitchin, said he believed the risk of investing in hedge funds was quite low. But the RMT rail workers' union has reacted with alarm. The union is worried at what it sees as a shift in policy by Railpen - historically a risk-averse fund - and is concerned about pension money being put into what many see as a volatile investment instrument. BBC Apr 6 2004 3:53PM GMT
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Tech Industry Very Good At Ignoring Customers. It seems like you see a study like this one every few months, and nothing ever seems to change. Another study has been done showing that tech firms are dreadful at handling email customer support. A third of the companies checked didn't bother to respond at all to questions put to them, while another 25% simply ignored the questions it wasn't convenient to answer. Even better, while many companies used automated replybots to say they'd follow up on questions, most of them didn't actually do so. To top it all off, nearly 30% of these tech firms took your information and gave it to "unaffiliated third parties" without permission. Basically, the support side of the house seems the same as it's always been. Executives are mostly ignoring and/or underfunding it, while hoping that no customers get too upset. [Techdirt]
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Strike threatens posh Cambodian hotels. About 1,000 workers are now vowing to stay away, and three of the country's most prestigious hotels are affected - the Raffles-owned Hotel Le Royal, the Intercontinental and the Hotel Cambodiana. BBC Apr 6 2004 11:21AM GMT
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Janice Kimball
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