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...surely will--there isn't a lot Washington can do to encourage employers to hand out more raises. Cost pressures will be so intense during the next expansion, business experts say, that companies are likely to stick to their guns. They will outsource more work--including skilled and white-collar tasks--to cheaper labor markets. They will embrace pay-for-performance schemes, which generally reward only the top-ranked workers at each wage level. And they will shift more of the costs and risks of illness and retirement to workers, especially in steel and other heavy industries...
...town Wisconsin to produce a show and finds the locals are less simple than he expects. "Luis" stars character actor Luis Guzman ("Boogie Nights") as the owner of an East Harlem donut shop; prime-time could use a few more working-class sitcoms (is a donut shop owner blue collar or powdered-sugar collar?) and it seems to have a strong voice...
...Percentage of middle-aged white-collar workers who say that after losing their job, they had to switch industries to land...
...says he only resorted to pure conjecture two or three times in the book, but it is up to the reader to discern those moments. His harrowing account of Pearl's decapitation by a Yemeni henchman includes unknowable embellishments: "As the Yemeni killer grabs and tears the collar of his shirt, he thinks of other hands. Of caresses. Of games from his boyhood." Lévy also conjures up the thoughts of the admitted and since convicted ringleader, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, on the restless night before he sprung his trap on Pearl. Sheikh, Lévy finds...
Meanwhile, pompous Widener and gray MIT—and the brains they attracted—had come to dominate the white-collar, high-tech industries that filled Cambridge...