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Public Choice economists have pointed out that in the political system, the people with a disproportionate influence are members of concentrated interest groups that have a lot at stake in an existing or proposed government program. Because U.S. sugar producers have so much at stake per person, they have a large voice in the process; sugar consumers (virtually all of us), though we lose only a little each, lose more in total from the restriction than sugar producers gain. The late Aaron Director, a law professor at the University of Chicago who helped create the field of law and economics, said it well in talking about Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal: "These young men who come to Washington to serve the public interest find, as if by an invisible hand, that they end up serving their own...
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Nicholas C. Geale's column "Back to indentured servitude" (Opinion, Sunday) fails to acknowledge the history of exploitation and abuse in our nation's agricultural guest-worker program and how the George W. Bush administration's midnight changes gutted the few worker protections the program contained. While doing nothing to address the problem of the hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers already here performing agricultural work, the Bush administration's changes to the H-2A agricultural guest-worker program create a huge, abusive new guest- worker program. Wages, housing, recruitment and labor protections for American workers are all greatly reduced under the Bush administration's H-2A program. So is government oversight.
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Southern Californians pull their cash from automated teller machines, fuel up by paying at the pump, buy their movie and train tickets from computers without ever seeing a human face. But that ease hasn't translated at supermarkets, warehouse stores and others with self-checkout lanes. It's bad enough that I have to grocery shop, so the last thing I want to do is bag them myself,' said Hira Patterson, a Northridge restaurant owner who prefers waiting in long lines than using an open self-scanner. "If I could get them cheaper because I did it, I'd do it, but there's really no incentive now. And whenever you use them there's usually a problem.'
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Web-based customer services market - Industry Trend or Event Now that electronic commerce makes up an ever larger source of company profits, Web-based customer service is increasingly important. To accomplish this, company Web sites should offer all standard call center services, including knowledge management, load balancing, intelligent contact routing and computer-telephony integration, as well as full-service and self-service options.
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The front page of the Wall Street Journal is not the usual purveyor of nostalgia, but a bit of the past flashed before me the other morning when I read that Terry Lundgren, the CEO of Federated Department Stores, wants to revive the "cathedral of commerce" that once anchored Main Street. Visions of shirts and shoes and crystal, of sparkling glass counters and uniformed elevator attendants, danced like sugar plums through my imagination. Federated recently acquired May Department Stores, at $17 billion the largest acquisition in department store history. With the joining of Macy's and Bloomingdale's, Mr. Lundgren thinks the department store won't join the pushcart and the street bazaar in the Valhalla of merchandising after all.
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The Pennsylvania Commission on Judicial Independence can help the state's dysfunctional court system regain the public's trust by improving judicial transparency. If the public had easy access to all public documents -- unlike the current scavenger-hunt system of the Unified Judicial System Web site -- people would be better able to judge judges. And that would include allowing TV coverage of the state Supreme Court when cases are argued.
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Earned Leather and Are You Being Served? by Master Archer and slave Elegant and The Art Of The Bite by headliners Sir Olivier and boy Sparky, 2008 International Leather Sir and International Leather Boy.
