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...across the board for everyone making more than $35,000 a year, restored it, then imposed it again. He hopes to avoid such measures in the future by doling out raises more judiciously. "It's a change no one really likes," says Stan Beavers, 38, an Avow account executive. "You just have to continue to better yourself, develop the skills to keep competing...
...underfunded. New data show that blue-collar workers have shorter life spans than white-collar workers. So, both management and organized labor argue, less pension funding is required--and that would free cash for new jobs and pay raises. But actuaries say the analysis is faulty; it fails to account for the longer lives of many white-collar workers also covered by a company's pension plan...
Offsetting these increases is a 1.7% drop in prices for goods like cars, clothing and computers, which account for 23% of spending. Through productivity gains at home and cheap labor abroad, manufacturers have kept prices low. That's something a dentist or restaurant owner, with less flexible rent and labor costs, can't easily do. Food and energy prices (the remaining 21% of spending) have been rising (energy sharply) over the past few months but are expected to fall later this year. If you include them, the overall CPI was up 2.2% in April...
...right, that was an easy one. The year was 1996, and the adviser was Dick Morris (and no, they couldn't stop the story). The scene is from The Clinton Wars (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 822 pages), Sidney Blumenthal's long-awaited, overlong account of his years at the White House, which, in rare moments, has some of the you-are-there, walk-with-me charm and snap of the TV show...
...with only an elementary school education, Burroughs landed a job at Ogilvy & Mather and in short order became a Manhattan adman with a six-figure salary. "It was just thrilling," he remembers over lunch at the sort of expense-account restaurant frequented by Manhattan admen. "I thought I would end up in a mental hospital, or pumping gas for the rest of my life...