As President-elect Donald Trump vows sweeping tariffs on even America's close partners once in office, U.S. wine merchants and restaurateurs are watching with trepidation -- and pushing for exclusions they say will protect small businesses. Should Washington reintroduce 25 percent levies on European food and wines, the situation would be "crippling to many, myself included," added the chef, who employs …
Dutch banks will not help the government to set a gambling limit for their customers. They feel that monitoring customers’ gambling behavior is a privacy violation, Ronit van der Schaaf of the Dutch Banking Association told NOS. “We see the scale of the number of people with problematic gambling debts, but we are surprised that the solution to these problems …
— When BNSF railroad conductor Justin Schaaf needed to take time off from work this summer, he had to make a choice: go to the dentist to get a cavity in his molar filled or attend a party for his son’s 7th birthday. “Then when I am finally able to get into the dentist four, five, six months later, the …
A student from Everett Middle School participates in the Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill on Oct. 20 in San Francisco. Many San Francisco Bay Area residents were given several seconds’ warning before the shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck under the mountains east of San Jose this week. The activation of the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert system …
Club legend Schaaf, 60, who was Bremen head coach from 1999 until 2013, will take charge for the nail-biting final game at home to Gladbach. Berlin: Werder Bremen on Sunday sacked head coach Florian Kohfeldt and replaced him with club legend Thomas Schaaf for their final league game this season after the club slipped into the bottom three of the …
By this summer, Oakland will begin giving 600 residents $500 a month for at least 18 months as part of a new guaranteed income program. “I’ve got to find some mayors in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming.” Indeed, the announcements about new guaranteed income programs have become almost routine, especially in California, where about half a dozen cities have …
Michael Dorety was a retired 68-year-old Dallas firefighter who had the long-standing mental habit of calculating catastrophes, the better to avoid them. On Wednesday, March 4, passengers awoke to find the daily newsletter, Princess Patter, announcing “some of the day’s onboard highlights,” including: A speech about dolphins in the Princess Theater. It notified passengers that the Centers for Disease Control …
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