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1. Cheesecake Factory
   In addition to 40 flavors of cheesecake, The Cheesecake Factory has a 200-item menu, daily specials and children's items. Typical lunch or dinner entrée prices range from $8.95 to $24.95. The art deco-themed dining room seats up to 350. The Cheesecake Factory has 44 locations nationwide, with headquarters in Calabasas Hills, Calif. A Sunday brunch menu is served 10:15 a.m. - 2 p.m., priced from $8.95 to $14.95. Casual attire. No reservations.
2. Nike -- Factories
   Tim Connor of NikeWatch said: "On finishing work in a Nike contract factory, the great majority of Nike workers will go back to rural areas marked by extreme poverty. Their future economic security is very much tied up with what they earn now, in that if they are able to save enough they will be able to start small informal businesses back home.
3. Cheesecake Factory -- Cheesecake Factory Restaurant
   The Cheesecake Factory is a unique, upscale casual dining restaurant offering more than 200 menu selections including appetizers, pizza, pasta, seafood, steaks, salads, sandwiches and more. Don’t forget to try one of their 50 delicious cheesecakes and desserts such as White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle® Cheesecake or the new Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake.
4. Assembly Line -- Workers
   An automotive assembly line starts with a bare chassis; components are attached successively as the growing assemblage moves along a conveyor. Parts are matched into subassemblies on feeder lines that intersect the main line to deliver body parts, engines, and other assemblies. As the units move past, each worker along the line performs a specific function. Each part and tool is delivered to its point of use in synchronization with the line. A number of different assemblies are on the line simultaneously, but an intricate system of scheduling and control ensures that the appropriate body type and colour, trim, engine, and optional equipment arrive together to make the desired combinations.
5. Asbestos -- Asbestos Worker
   Asbestos is a general name that applies to several types of fibrous silicate minerals. Historically, asbestos is best known for its resistance to flame and its ability to be woven into cloth. Because of these properties, it was used to make fireproof stage curtains for theaters, as well as heat-resistant clothing for metal workers and firefighters. More modern applications of asbestos take advantage of its chemical resistance and the reinforcing properties of its fibers to produce asbestos-reinforced cement products including pipes, sheets, and shingles used in building construction. Asbestos is ... used as insulation for rocket engines on the space shuttle and as a component in the electrolytic cells that make oxygen on submerged nuclear submarines. Much of the chlorine for bleach, cleansers, and disinfectants is produced using asbestos products.
6. Labor Unions -- Workers
   Labor unions have been a part of Nigerian industry since 1912, when government employees formed a civil service union. In 1914 this organization became the Nigerian Union of Civil Servants after the merger of the protectorates of Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria. In 1931 two other major unions were founded--the Nigerian Railway Workers Union and the Nigerian Union of Teachers (which included private-school teachers). Legalization of unions in 1938 was followed by rapid labor organization during World War II as a result of passage by the British government of the Colonial Development and Welfare Act of 1940, which encouraged the establishment of unions in the colonies. The defense regulation of October 1942 made strikes and lockouts illegal for the duration of the war and denied African workers the cost-of-living allowances that European civil servants received. In addition, the colonial government increased wages only modestly, although the cost of living rose 74 percent from September 1939 to October 1943.
7. Wal-Mart -- Wal-Mart Workers
   In Mexico, Wal-Mart is the largest private-sector employer with nearly 150,000 local residents on it's payroll. Wal-Mart de Mexico made net earnings of $1.148 billion in 2006. Apparently that wasn't enough, because the company is now exploiting thousands of Mexican teen workers who work as unpaid "volunteer" baggers. Read more.
8. David Bacon -- Unions
   For twenty-five years David Bacon was a Silicon Valley factory worker, and a union organizer for the United Farm Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, and the Molders Unions. Most of the unions to which he belonged were ones in which immigrants were a big part of the workforce.
9. Eddie Bauer -- United States
   The errors relate to the determination of deferred tax assets and goodwill on its balance sheets, arising from the treatment of leasehold improvements, Eddie Bauer elaborated in a press release. The retailer said the problems were discovered while preparing its financial statements for 2006.
10. North and South -- North Korea
    The North and South Korean leaders ... agreed to expand economic ties. The two countries have fought several naval clashes over a sea border established by the United Nations west of the Korean peninsula. The leaders called for the recognition of a common fishing area in an effort to reduce tensions.

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