But in a typical government kludge, the tax break applies to national corporate and income tax, but not local municipality taxes. Furthermore, many companies argue that PCs are only usable for 3 years so they feel the government should change the basic law to make PCs expense items rather than fixed assets. Hitachi to fire 6,500 Hitachi, Japan's largest electronics maker, has said it will lay off 6,500 employees by March 2000. The Hitachi group consists of 1,016 subsidiaries with 330,000 employees. All Japanese and all interested in working for a foreign company.
American men click on Internet sex sites six times more often than women do.
The study of 9,000 anonymous Internet users says that 86 percent of men call up sites with explicit sexual content compared to 14 percent of women. 78.8 percent of respondents said they call up sex sites only at home, 5.8 percent exclusively at work and 12.7 percent at work and home. Some of the revenues will also be handed to Charity Logistics and the individual charity concerned. There were no casualties. The wait is almost over, Microsoft announced at its Office Deployment Conference in New Orleans that the development and testing of Office 2000 was now complete, and that the product will reach retail channels by June 10.