No expense is harder to control than labor, typically accounting for 25% to 35% of costs in such mine construction and most of the overruns.

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Today things are different, the Labor Department is saying when it changes its accounting practices to categorize people within a wider range of duration of unemployment.

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The deal will lift GMAC's ratings above parent GM's, which have been sinking deeper into junk territory in light of ongoing accounting issues and the possible hit from labor unrest at Delphi.

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