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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business suit and tie. Bonnie Weisner, 34, a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Fort Lee, N.J., took advantage of the firm's flextime policy because she wanted to pursue an outside interest--becoming an emergency medical technician with a volunteer ambulance corps. In September she took a 40% pay cut and went from a 55-hr. workweek to a 24-hr. workweek at the consulting firm. She spends the rest of the week in training to become an EMT. She has an understanding with the company that she can go back to work full time when, and if, she wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Report: Perks That Work | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...Northfield, N.J., public relations firm with six employees and annual billings of $1 million, donates some of his frequent-flyer miles to his staff. Daly's practice of letting employees add vacation days to business trips if they want allows his firm to save on airfare--because of cut-rate Saturday-night-stayover airline prices. And his grateful employees get the added benefit of a mini-vacation at no cost to them. "I may be competing with the largest public relations firms in the world for employees; I need to differentiate myself from the big guys," Daly says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Report: Perks That Work | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...necessarily. Other communities have showered tax breaks on GM and its partners, assuming they would create or at least retain jobs. They were wrong. Volvo-GM closed a jointly owned plant (GM was the minority partner) in Orrville, Ohio, in 1996--just seven years after the county cut property and inventory taxes in half. Some 400 jobs were lost. The two automakers moved operations to Pulaski County, Va., where millions of dollars more in economic incentives awaited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: States At War | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...health-care worker, has been hospitalized at least once a year for the self-injury that scars her arms, legs and stomach. Her boyfriend of eight years left her, saying her self-mutilation made him miserable; most of her friends have dropped her. A few months ago, she cut herself so badly that she was soaked in blood at the end of a five-minute ambulance ride. "But I didn't want to die," she explains. "What people didn't understand was this was my way of staying alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Cutters Feel | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...feel like a little girl alone, the only person with her problem in a Ken Kesey world of psych wards. Now the problem of "cutters" like Collins has come out into the open; some are calling it the "anorexia of the '90s." An estimated 2 million Americans purposely cut or burn themselves, break bones or otherwise mutilate themselves. That figure may even be low, say many experts, judging from the growing number of reports from hospitals, schools and therapists. Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader started S.A.F.E. (Self-Abuse Finally Ends) Alternatives, the nation's only in-patient center for self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Cutters Feel | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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