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...contracts the union signed and ratified with GM, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler last year, over significant internal opposition, also represent a 5% cut in real wages because money from the automatic cost-of-living escalator that has been a feature of UAW contracts for more than half a century was diverted to cover health-care expenses, says Amy Bronson, who recently retired from Chrysler LLC and is now working on a Ph.D. at Wayne State University in Detroit. Union members also paid more for health care and gave ground on work rules, which critics claim drive up operating costs...
...Bloomberg subsequently confirmed, that Wal-Mart employees were prepping for the iPhone invasion in a number of stores throughout California. The newspaper also quoted a Wal-Mart department manager in Milpitas, California, as saying that her store would be getting a $99, 4-gigabyte model. That's half the cost and capacity of the cheapest model currently in Apple's line-up. (See the Top 10 iPhone applications...
iPhone Killer? Nokia plans to unveil its new smartphone, the N97, sometime in early 2009. The latest gadget to take on the iPhone is said to be a serious challenger, with a full keyboard concealed behind its touch screen, 48 GB of memory and GPS. But it will reportedly cost a hefty...
...This Is Your Life,” where Flowers sings: “The cops, they’ll steal your dreams and they’ll kill your prayers / Take a number where the blood just barely dried.” But this opacity comes at the cost of making sense. “Dustland Fairytale,” a badlands ballad about white trash, love, and God knows what else, features lyrics like: “Saw Cinderella in a party dress / But she was looking for a nightgown. / I saw the devil wrapping up his hands / He?...
...launched a surprise raid on a house in the Palestinian part of Hebron occupied by settlers whose eviction had been ordered by the Supreme Court. Young settlers from the militant, although largely formless and leaderless Hilltop Youth movement had flocked to Hebron vowing to resist the eviction at all cost. If the court order was implemented, they warned, Israel would experience the trauma of Jew killing Jew. They also threatened that the price tag of an eviction would take the form of random violence against Palestinian innocents. But by catching the diehards in the house unprepared - the raid was launched...