In a market economy, firms that adopt high-cost technologies in service to the environment typically have one of three things: a set of consumers whose interest in the environment makes them willing to pay more than market prices, a set of workers willing to sacrifice wages in exchange for environmental friendliness, or a set of investors willing to take below normal returns.
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Look at the example the Republicans have set: American workers have given us consistently rising productivity.
Some of the workers set backfires in an effort to control the blaze, but their attempts failed.
Clambering from floor to floor on slender bridges of bamboo, shirtless workers set wooden roof joints by hand.
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About 100 MoD workers set up a picket line, waving flags and sounding horns outside the Donnington base.
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Angry workers set ablaze a fire truck and several cars in Noida, a suburb of the capital, Delhi.
Health economist Patti Peeples suggests that workers set aside one day every month to wrap up any unfinished projects or address incomplete tasks.
Earlier this year several hundred homeless temporary workers set up a tent village in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo, across from the labour ministry and a few blocks from the Imperial Palace.
Others argue that kind of timing works in the tech sector, where workers often set their own schedule.
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Hunger set in among the workers and, before the deal was complete, at least one actually died of starvation.
In Delhi, there is even a league - the Street League - for homeless kids, set up by aid workers.
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The new Flexible Spending Account Tax limits the amount of money that workers can set aside tax-free for medical costs.
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Bush then plugged his proposal to partly privatize Social Security by allowing workers to set aside some of their payroll taxes in a personal savings account.
They include the possibility of a "hypothecated" NHS tax, greater local control of public services and encouraging public service workers to set up co-operatives to provide services.
The first minimum wage for garment workers was set in 1994, when the sector came under international scrutiny as foreign retailers began to buy more from the country.
One of the most contentious issues has been how to set the number of workers that may be admitted in the future, with business wanting liberal rules and labor wanting limits.
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Migrant workers sometimes set up businesses in South Africa.
Currently housing licences are only given to essential skilled workers for a set time.
Today, just about any company can set up shop, hire workers, and sell their products wherever there's an Internet connection.
In Europe one set of middle-class workers is desperate to hang on to protections and privileges: millions of others are stuck in unprotected temporary jobs or are unemployed.
HoneyComb will not only offer encryption, but it will also allow IT administrators to set policies that force corporate workers to use it (since some workers might skip encryption for performance and battery life reasons).
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The suit also names Michael Fitzgibbons, a Virginia personal injury attorney who is accused of using close ties with labor unions to set up screening halls where workers would obtain X-rays and materials to file asbestos claims.
What remote workers should do is set clear performance goals and regular times for meetings and calls with core teams.
Flexible hours, telecommuting, and nontraditional work cultures make tech a great place for female workers of any skill set or background.
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This job falls to Unedic, which is co-managed by employers and workers, who jointly set rules on entitlements, based on personal contributions.
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Security was tight in Noida, a Delhi suburb, where on Wednesday angry workers attacked factories and set ablaze 25 vehicles, including a fire truck.
Reforms to the jobs market, making it cheaper to fire workers and easier to set pay locally, will benefit Spain's economy in time but not now.
Quintiles's answer to patients' failing to finish long-term trials is to set up a network of social workers to follow them after they leave the hospital.
At ethanol plants such as Sao Manoel, they say they keep within rules set by the government for rural workers, and have introduced changes to improve working practices.
Gemma Cartwright, organiser of the Pride of Longbridge rally, said she would have liked the car to stay on site, where former factory workers are trying to set up a museum.
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