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...vote to approve any buyout. Workers with the greatest seniority are wary of jeopardizing their pension benefits, now as much as $25,000 a year. "I don't expect those still working to go along with any talk about making concessions," says Michael Shimko, 30, a laid-off chrome applicator...
...caviar. Passengers had hardly disembarked at Southampton before vases and linens, cycling machines and weight-lifting equipment from the ship's gymnasium, and countless other items were packed in crates and hauled away. The paintings were taken down, but the walls of smoked glass and the polished chrome bar tables were left in place...
When God speaks to Jim's wife, Tammy, He speaks not with fiery tongues, but from chrome exhaust pipes. Tammy compares life to driving a car up a hill. You got to stay on the right side of the road and the right side of life. No wonder the British have problems...
...York's Haitian Refugee Center, some 30,000 people have been killed in Haiti over the last few years. In fact, he notes, there are 35 jails per school and 189 soldiers per teacher in Haiti. When the President-for-Life appears at public ceremonies, he carries a chrome-plated revolver in his hand...
...system in reaching them. Indeed, Huntington argues, to the degree that a government must govern, it will always fall short of the absolutes: certainly it will never be able to erase the continuing suspicions about government power. This gap between expectations and performance (or, in Huntington's brushed-chrome lingo, between ideals and institutions, abbreviated as the "IvI gap") fuels our volatile periods of creedal passion. "The ideological challenge to American government thus comes not from abroad but from home, not from imported Marxist doctrines but from homegrown American idealism...