Solar advocates slam Labor's car rebate plan
Yahoo!7 Finance Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:30 PM PDT
Green groups have criticised the Federal Government's decision to pull funding from solar energy schemes in order to pay for its plan to remove old cars from Australia's roads. |
The samurai who were let out of the box
The Japan Times Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:19 PM PDT
NEW YORK â€" The Museum of the City of New York has an exhibition titled "Samurai in New York: The First Japanese Delegation, 1860." The "delegation" was the first embassy dispatched by Japan in more than a millennium. The previous one, in 838, went to the Tang Dynasty court to pay tribute to the Chinese emperor. The new one went to Washington to ratify a commercial treaty. The City Museum has ... |
A bailout by any other name
The Japan Times Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:00 PM PDT
The gap between rich and poor seems to be widening worldwide, the result of government deregulation and the dominance of market-led economic policies. As businesses are given freer rein to do whatever they want, wages at the lower end of the pay scale drop. Government revenues consequently shrink, thus making it more difficult to erect social safety nets for those who fall off the employment ... |
(WWE) Another Former ECW Star Turns Down TNA - Details
The Wrestling News Page Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:59 PM PDT
Lance Storm, who has been highly critical of TNA Wrestling's creative process in recent years, posted a blog on his official website saying he declined their offer to appear at next month's Hardcore Justice pay-per-view event. |
Pay czar will not fight on executive pay
The Springfield News-Leader Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:50 PM PDT
Washington -- For all his tough talk about excessive pay for bankers, the Obama administration's pay czar let the executives go without a fight. |
Ex-U of Utah accountant sentenced for embezzlement
KSL Salt Lake City Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:43 PM PDT
A former accountant at the University of Utah will spend 10 days in jail and pay more than $120,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to criminal charges for having stolen from the school's theater department. |
ACC blunder puts sex abuse file in wrong hands
Stuff Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:29 PM PDT
ACC has launched an inquiry and offered to pay a sexual abuse victim $10,000 after accidentally sending her patient file to her local superette â€" where it was opened by the shop's owner. |
Teachers to get pay online
Hindustan Times Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:19 PM PDT
Teachers of schools, which are funded by the state government, will soon get their monthly salary online through a direct account credit system. |
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