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What it costs to fire a worker
AFTER years of fat profits and bonuses, cost-cutting is once again at the top of the corporate agenda. For companies wanting to chop out middle-management dead wood or sack factory workers, costs can vary enormously across the world. America, New Zealand and Tonga are among the most company-friendly countries, requiring no penalties or compensation to fire a full-time employee of 20 years. By contrast, a business in Zimbabwe must shell out well over eight years’ worth of pay to sack a worker. But companies in Venezuela and Bolivia are even more tied—workers there cannot be fired at all.
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Musical Road Hits Sour Notes With Neighbors
Local officials say it was a mistake to allow a television commercial company to grind grooves into a stretch of desert roadway near Lancaster to enable car tires to play a song — “The William Tell Overture” — as people drive over it.
The sounds are disturbing people in a nearby subdivision, the Daily News reports. The City of Lancaster plans to pave over the musical grooves Tuesday.
Persons driving the posted 55 miles an hour west on Avenue K, in the high desert about five miles west of the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway, hear about 38 musical notes of the well-known theme, also known as the overture to “The Lone Ranger.”
American Honda has paid for the promotion as part of a television ad campaign set to air this fall, but amateurs have peppered YouTube with homemade renditions of their own vehicles rolling over the grooves.
The road is tuned to a car just exactly the length, and equipped with tires the same size, as a Honda Civic, a spokesman for Honda said. But other vehicles are also successful in playing the notes, if a little off-key.
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Lebanon lands $175M Bible Park USA
Developers of the Bible Park USA have announce plans to build the $175 million park in Lebanon.
The park will be built on 113 acres off Cainsville Road and Tater Peeler Road fronting Interstate 40 in Lebanon, according to a press release from the developers, BPU Holdings, LLC.
Construction is expected to begin in 2009, with the park opening in late 2010.
Developers had hoped to building the Bible theme park just outside of Murfreesboro, but zoning for the park was defeated in a close vote by the Rutherford County Commission in May.
The development of the park is being headed by Calif.-based Entertainment Development Group Inc.
The park will represent life as it was in the Holy Land’s early days and visualizations of Bible stories, according to the developers. In addition to attractions for people of all ages and religions, it will include a children’s area and a teen area that will be ideal for church events and field trips.
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