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Barker’s actions have continually reflected his strong convictions. He has refused to do commercials for a frozen food company, a cosmetics manufacturer, and a fast food chain because these businesses were allegedly involved in animal cruelty...
...first official year of rock 'n roll, the hits stopped coming. A nice married couple was suddenly sooooo 1954. Paul looked less like a genius- guitarist than an irrelevant uncle. Les and Mary did commercials for the Robert Hall clothing chain ('When the values go up-up-up/ And the prices go down-down- down') and Rheingold Beer. They broke up the act, and their marriage. (Ford died, at 52, in 1976.) Paul pretty much retired. He survived quintuple-bypass heart surgery; it was one of the first operations of its kind - another Les Paul innovation. Back from the dead...
Earlier this week six female employees of the nation's largest private employer, retail chain Wal-Mart, filed a federal lawsuit accusing the store of sex discrimination. Although over seventy percent of Wal-Mart's hourly employee's are female, they account for only a third of all management. The women allege the retail chain engaged in unfair practices in the training, payment and promotion of its female employees. TIME contributor Barbara Ehrenreich worked at a Wal-Mart in Minnesota doing research for her latest book, "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America" which looks at the lives...
...management team and brought in veteran airline executive Marc Rochet to head the ailing company. He came up with a plan, announced May 21, to stem the losses within three years by cutting unprofitable routes and eliminating 1,328 out of 7,400 jobs. Rochet's announcement triggered a chain reaction of strikes and demonstrations by AOM-Air Liberté employees...
...noise has achieved cultural permeation, critical mass: It's everywhere, in chain pharmacies, department stores, restaurants, beauty parlors, shopping malls in every corner of the global village. Once my wife and I were driving across the Sinai desert and found a modern hotel in the middle of nowhere, like a mirage. We went in for lunch. We were the only persons in the hotel, except for the staff. They had a canned music system, and when we entered, the desk clerk rushed to the sound control panel to turn on the stuff ("Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," a little...