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...Meanwhile, the UAW has allowed new employees to be hired at lower wages. Under the 2007 contracts it signed with GM, Ford and Chrysler, new blue collar workers start at $14 per hour, rather than the $28 per hour paid senior employees. New workers also get a 401(k), instead of a defined-benefit pension plan, and a restricted menu of health-care plans...
...Last fall, the Blue Ribbon Commission was created after a market research study initiated by the School Committee revealed that resolving the ongoing middle school debate should be a priority...
...When a New Yorker named James Brunot contacted Butts about mass-producing the game, he readily handed the operation over. Brunot's contributions were significant: he came up with the iconic color scheme (pastel pink, baby-blue, indigo and bright red), devised the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles to make a word, and conceived the name "Scrabble." The first Scrabble factory was an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Connecticut, where Brunot and several gracious friends manufactured 12 games an hour. When the chairman of Macy's discovered the game on vacation and decided to stock his shelves with...
...mood. It becomes part of the culture. Whereas America's history has been one of expanding horizons, yours has become funnel-shaped. Much like the postbellum South, Rust Belt culture looks backward at an idealized past--a nostalgia not for plantations but for three-bedroom houses paid up on blue collar salaries. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...learn how to kill, how to take power,” Norberg-Bohm said. These speakers emphasized the importance of child-raising, while acknowledging the difficulty in overcoming a “boys will be boys” mentality. McGuffey discussed an experiment in which a baby dressed in blue was described as “strong” and “alert.” The exact same baby was then dressed in pink and was described by the same people as “cute” and “delicate...