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...Hired as a manager for chemical-mechanical planarization, a certain kind of polishing process, he shadowed his counterpart in Fab 18 and then started solving related assignments on his own....
...The US embassy in Beijing and the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, a lobby group for about 1,500 US businesses, declined to comment....
...This is a uniquely regressive system, which originated with businesses’ refusal to pay proper wages to African-American workers after the abolition of slavery....
...So far, however, the prototypes available from contractors such as Lockheed Martin look cumbersome....
...When the government borrows money and spends it, the money goes to companies either directly (think of a defence contractor) or indirectly (think of a stimulus check used to buy a new TV)....
...American hands a tool that Washington has condemned for enabling transnational repression....
...The latest report from Pew Research Center found that TikTok had rocketed in popularity among American teenagers....
...The song is “Sad Girlz Luv Money” by Amaarae, a Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter. Its cash-me-out message will resonate with her fellow recording artists....
...Rising property values have encouraged Americans to invest in their homes....
...Chris Spear, head of the American Trucking Associations, said this week that the sector (with around 3m hires overall) is currently short of 80,000-odd workers....
...Based outside Washington, Lockheed is the world’s biggest defence contractor....
...But the vast majority of these workers are classified as independent contractors, not employees, so they must cover their own expenses, including fuel....
...Home Depot’s quarterly revenues also blew past Wall Street’s expectations as rising home prices encouraged Americans to continue investing in their properties....
...He decided to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge to get a masters degree and then a PhD in mechanical engineering at the school’s Sloan Automotive Laboratory....
...The company is working with both American and Taiwanese construction contractors to build the Arizona fab....
...That helps to explain why American experts polled recently by Axa cited cyber risk as their single biggest concern this year, and global experts placed it second behind climate change....
...Home Depot, which has a greater focus on professional contractors, looks well placed to reap the benefit of the new wave of stimulus spending through HD Supply....
...She became one of the 29.8m Americans who filed for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, the first time Congress has provided a safety net for the estimated 57m gig workers and freelancers who would otherwise...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 5 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...The presence of two of the most prominent North American investors as major shareholders might have been expected to produce a different outcome....
...Americans spending more time at home are undertaking more do-it-yourself projects and also making bigger investments in their properties....
...“In some cases, they’re still a little apprehensive to allow contractors in their home,” said Mr Ellison....
...In May, when President Donald Trump announced the emergency approval of remdesivir, the first antiviral to treat Covid-19, he hailed its developer Gilead as a “great American company” with “the hot thing...
...In July this year, one in five Americans with children at home couldn’t afford to feed them enough, according to census data. For many, working from home now feels like the future....
...employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage”....
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