The cash gives corporate successors the luxury of time and choice to recruit a new manager, hire a temporary executive or train someone already in the firm.

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And in the long run it is bad for everyone, because employers do not train temporary workers a particular problem in economies like Italy and Spain, where new permanent contracts are rare.

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"Everything suggests it was a pure accident where several temporary and unfortunate circumstances caused the woman to set the train in motion when she was cleaning, " Paer Andersson said in a statement, according to AFP news agency.

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And if an earthquake above a certain magnitude strikes, the bullet train will stop and nuclear and other plants will automatically go into temporary shut down.

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