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Let'm take away social security----I don't care....Home Depot's got my back!

 

Home Depot sees seasoned citizens as labor resource

Friday, February 27, 2004

 

The nation's largest home-improvement chain of stores is taking advantage of a growing pool of experienced workers.

 

Home Depot Inc. is partnering with AARP to find retired people and seniors to work in its stores.

 

Smart. Very smart.

 

These seasoned citizens could have a lot to offer customers in these stores that cater to do-it-yourselfers.

 

http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ss...78985668870.xml

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The United States "regrets" an EU decision to impose record trade sanctions on the United States in a row over illegal tax breaks but is working to end them rapidly, a US spokesman said Friday.

 

The European Union will slap duties on a wide range of US products from Monday in the row over the Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC) law, which gives tax breaks to US exporters deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization (WTO).

 

The US administration is pressing is pressing the US Congress to move forward "as quickly as possible" to repeal the offending terms of the legislation, said the US mission to the EU.

 

"We've urged the European Commission to refrain from imposing retaliatory tariffs, given the complexity of the legislation and we regret that they are moving foward," a mission spokesman told AFP.

 

"But we will continue to work with Congress to get the legislation moving as quickly as possible," he added.

 

Tariffs, already approved by the World Trade Organization, begin at 200 million dollars (164 million euros) on goods such as American meat, paper, nuclear power parts and semi-precious stones.

 

They will be ratcheted up by 40 million dollars a month until the so-called foreign sales corporation (FSC) law is scrapped.

 

US Treasury Secretary John Snow, US Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans and US Trade Representive Robert Zoellick wrote to Congressional leaders this week "urging prompt action on this legislation this week," said the US spokesman.

 

"The legislation is moving forward in the revelant congressional committees, it's working its way through both the Senate and through the House versions of the legislation.

 

"The Senate is trying to bring the legislation to the floor in early by March, maybe even by this coming week," he added, while declining to forecast how long it take to repeal the tax breaks.

 

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DJ Schroeder Calls Weak Dollar Worrying After Meeting Bush

By Alex Keto

Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

 

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Friday called the weak U.S. dollar "worrying" and added that he brought up the matter during talks with U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House.

 

"I made it clear the euro-dollar level is worrying," Schroeder said.

 

 

(MORE on Dow Jones Newswires)

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Tariffs, already approved by the World Trade Organization, begin at 200 million dollars (164 million euros) on goods such as American meat, paper, nuclear power parts and semi-precious stones.

 

Tariffs on American paper. :D

 

That's what Shroeder's working on isn't he ? :blink:

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Tariffs, already approved by the World Trade Organization, begin at 200 million dollars (164 million euros) on goods such as American meat, paper, nuclear power parts and semi-precious stones.

 

Tariffs on American paper. :D

 

That's what Shroeder's working on isn't he ? :blink:

:D :D

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