Firm can't fire man for 1.8 cent theft
(Reuters)
Reuters - A German company that fired a man for the theft of 1.8 euro cents (two U.S. cents) worth of electricity had no grounds for sacking him, a court ruled, dismissing the firm's appeal against his reinstatement. |
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Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger
(AP)
 AP - East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.
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Obama calling for more infrastructure spending
(AP)
 AP - President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term spending in the nation's roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he's trying to stimulate the sputtering economy.
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Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers
(AP)
AP - The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats. |
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Son: Iran woman who faced stoning to be lashed
(AP)
 AP - An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday.
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Obama getting fewer judges confirmed than Nixon
(AP)
AP - A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago. |
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Labor Day Is No Vacation for a Growing Number of Workers
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - If you're a business owner or a salaried employee, the long Labor Day
weekend is a chance to kick back and relax before heading into the busy
fall business season. If you're an hourly employee - and more than half
of all workers are, according to the U.S. Census Bureau - you might not
have that luxury, particularly if you're a low-level worker
involuntarily working part time. |
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BUSINESSMEN OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
(Richard Reeves)
Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- In the early 1980s, in a book called "American Journey," I calculated that American corporate chief executive officers were making 30 to 40 times as much as they paid average production workers. Looking back at that, I see that I was surprised to learn that that ratio had increased from 25-to-1 in 1970 -- and that in other developed countries the ratio was closer to 10-to-1. |
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