They're going to be talking about the U.S.-EU approach and proposals in the World Trade Organization. We're trying to find a lot of common ground so we can move the process forward
Ed Loyd
Right now on the EU.
Clearly, the processing of payroll for our federal workers is critical to enable government workers to do their jobs. And we're very impressed with what the National Finance Center workers accomplished. Before the hurricane struck, they worked hard to ensure that the next payroll was ready to go. And then many of them, with just a single suitcase, knowing that their homes had been destroyed, went to work in Philadelphia and Dallas to handle the payroll. We appreciate their commitment. It was truly remarkable.
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It's going to be a long process to get (the finance center) back up and running again. We are prepared to operate elsewhere for the first couple of months.
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We have a very friendly relationship with Japan and we've wanted to resolve this through the negotiation process rather than retaliation.
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Japan has taken a number of positive steps, but they've been small tentative steps and they've been painfully slow.
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Are we really serving people when we have some offices that are only open a few hours a day, or that don't have full-time employees? That's a good question to ask, when we have offices where it's costing us for every dollar of benefits that we're delivering.
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We all sense the urgency of coming to a positive result by the time we get to Hong Kong, and certainly that's what the two will be discussing -- how we can achieve that. We all want this objective here.
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We have some folks who have a suitcase with them, and they have lost their homes, and they are still working.
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We don't know whether there is need for additional rule making or for guidance to the industry.
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