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...Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to do a series of low-wage jobs on the theory that the best way to write about life at $6 an hour is to live it. If only Ehrenreich had pitched the idea to TLC. Instead, the network produced the more capitalist-friendly job-switch series Now Who's Boss? (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), in which CEOs do drudge work at their own companies, critiqued by their employees. For Tisch, flipping omelets and checking in customers was not just educational but good advertising as well. "We're not as large...
Foster described The Theory of Capitalist Development: Principles of Marxian Political Economy and Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order, which he co-authored with economist Paul A. Baran, as Sweezy’s most important works...
Arthur Rock, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who helped financed the launches of Intel and Apple Computer, donated $25 million to the school in January 2003. Two months later, Frank Batten, who started the Weather Channel in 1982, gave $32 million to the capital campaign...
...price? Studies have shown that it costs $800 million to create a new drug and get it through FDA approval. Your story promoted Soviet-style price controls. Remove incentives, and you will get Soviet-style results and products. As a practicing physician and surgeon, I'll take a capitalist drug company for my patients every time. CHRISTOPHER LYON, M.D. Newport Beach, Calif...
...drawings; in 1997, a toy-soldier collection for about $600,000; in 2002, some 60 Faberge objects for nearly $6 million. Other items have been sold as well, including the manuscript of Abraham Lincoln's last speech and a trove of other presidential documents, a 727 jet named Capitalist Tool and real estate in Fiji and Tangier, Morocco...