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...pictures of the stock-market crash...
...constantly networked, a worker whose skill set is very interchangeable, a worker who thinks of downsizing as a challenge - a worker who thrives on this. This becomes the prototype, but in many ways that's quite removed from the daily lives of most American workers. Before this crazy crash of 2008, bankers always landed on their feet, almost always. Job insecurity isn't the same thing for the average American worker. They often experience downward mobility or don't land on their feet...
Spending Cuts Then came Spain's property crash and the financial turmoil in the U.S., which tipped the world into recession. On a recent Friday, González's studio was empty. There is at least one boarded-up storefront on every block of the street where it is located. Cafés, children's boutiques, legal offices, furniture stores, language schools - the recession has closed them all. "I'm getting by on piercings," says González with a shrug. "They're a lot cheaper, so the kids can still get enough money to pay for them...
...toddled about in his sporty Zenn, a low-speed neighborhood electric vehicle, or NEV, for next to nothing. Though NEVs can't legally go over 25 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone, newer high-speed sedans, like the ones Nissan and Tesla will be launching, are highway-approved, crash-tested and able to hit 80 m.p.h. in seconds flat. (See the top 10 everything...
...more than the law. He went through some of Sotomayor's most tragic cases to underline instances where she applied the rule of law even when the decision went against those who had clearly suffered. "You heard the case of families of the 213 victims of the tragic TWA crash," Schumer said. "The relatives of the victims sued manufacturers of the airplane, which spontaneously combusted in midair, in order to get some modicum of relief, though, of course, nothing a court could do would make up for the loss of the loved ones. Did you have sympathy for those families...