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/ 28 October 2005
Florida, Mexico and Cuba reported progress by Friday in recovery from a trail of destruction left by Hurricane Wilma, briefly the Atlantic’s strongest storm on record. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Beta, the 23rd Atlantic storm in the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season, churned in the Caribbean.
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/ 28 October 2005
South African firms should be given tax cuts designed to increase employment for a period of five years, says official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. For this period, employers should be given tax deductions of 150% of the first R2 000 per month of new employees’ salaries.
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/ 28 October 2005
The South African Insurance Association (Saia) views the Road Accident Fund Amendment Bill as a positive step. According to Tracy Pitman, Saia executive officer, the Road Accident Fund currently has a sizeable deficit and this Bill aims to reverse this deficit position by putting certain limits on the benefits payable.
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/ 28 October 2005
What do you get the man who has everything? Spare a thought for the friends and family of Bill Gates: buying presents for the world’s richest man is the kind of puzzle that few gift-givers would relish. On Friday night Gates will blow out the candles for a personal landmark: his 50th birthday.
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/ 28 October 2005
United States art museums are poised to put up for auction huge amounts of artwork by some of the world’s most revered painters next week, prompting accusations from critics that they are neglecting their role as cultural custodians in search of short-term financial gains.
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/ 28 October 2005
Nate and Alisha Traveller, from Utah, were mightily impressed with the Gipper’s plane. ”It’s awesome,” said Alisha. ”You can certainly see who he was and how he did things.” Nate added: ”We watched his funeral on television and were touched. That’s my seven-month-old daughter: her name’s Reagan.”
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/ 28 October 2005
Crushed by sex bias It’s been years since I read a newspaper article that resonated as deeply as Natasha Walter’s incisive column about the ”cruel expectations of workplaces that are built around the working practices of men who sidestep their family responsibilities” (”Punished by biology”, October 21). Just because everybody writes about it, and it’s […]
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/ 28 October 2005
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday defended his inflammatory anti-Israeli remarks earlier this week, saying that Israel does not want to hear any criticism. The president was among thousands of people who took part in state-organised anti-Israel rallies on Friday in Tehran and other cities around the country.
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/ 28 October 2005
The European Union offered on Friday to reduce average agricultural tariffs by 47%, its steepest farm tariff cuts to date, in a proposal aimed at breaking a deadlock in world trade talks. ”The EU’s offer is substantial, offering new market access in agriculture,” EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson said.
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/ 28 October 2005
First National Bank this week won the award for being the bank best at dealing with customer complaints, the Ombudsman for Banking Services said on Friday. The result was based on a telephone survey of 400 customers from each of the four top retail banks, conducted by Markinor, a market research company.