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...giveaways or other inducements to attract new workers. Like a pro baseball club, the Ann & Hope department store in Watertown, Mass., offers signing bonuses--as much as $300--to new employees. Veteran staffers who find new prospects for the payroll can also win up to $100. In Missouri's affluent St. Louis County, McDonald's recently offered free movie tickets to passersby in order to fill a hall with youngsters for a hiring spiel. In Dublin, Ohio, Denny Lynch, a vice president of Wendys International, says that the burger chain is looking into scholarships as a lure to start young...
Decisions at Harvard are made by managers with little input from the community they affect and ultimate authority rests in a private and secretive body: the Harvard Corporation. The corporation is comprised of seven affluent white males who, except for the University's President and Treasurer, come to Harvard once every two weeks. These are just the sort of people who own and run companies that operate in South Africa. In fact, two of them, Coleman M. Mockler Jr. '52 and Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, do just that...
Many Saudis view the end of the oil boom as a return to quieter and perhaps even better times. The sudden great wealth created social tensions that should be relieved in a less affluent period. "Those times before were not normal," says one Saudi businessman. "They were not real." A longtime British resident offers a similar perspective: "Patterns of life are traditional here, and the entire fabric still fits very well together. The system has been in place for 200 years, and people feel very comfortable with their government and their religion. What alternative has been offered?" Yet that...
...charged that soaring medical costs and the industry's inefficiency may deny medical care even to affluent Americans. This medical crisis could culminate in the first quarter of the next century when 60 million baby boomers will be over 65, signalling "the dawn of a four-generation society...
...wore loose-fitting barong tagalogs; many of the women, designer dresses. The formality was appropriate for a presidential inauguration--even one called at short notice. But the dignitaries and affluent friends assembled at the Club Filipino in the Manila suburb of Greenhills merely formed a splendid backdrop for the more modestly attired guest of honor. Clad in a simple yellow dress, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 53, could hardly have imagined this moment three months ago, when her improbable quest for the Philippine presidency began. Her voice was calm and steady as she recited the presidential oath, her hand resting...