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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

There Once Was a Man Named Dell, Who Told 1,900 Workers “Go to Hell,” Redux

billthecatIreland’s “Celtic Tiger” is looking more and more like Bloom County’s Bill the Cat these days and Dell’s decision to shutter its plant in the Irish city of Limerick certainly won’t improve matters. According to report by Forfas, the country’s policy advisory body for enterprise and science, the closure will cost the region almost 9,500 jobs–nearly four times the 2,510 that will be lost by the closure itself.

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