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...also inane councilwoman Gale Brewer proclaiming victory over the terrible jobs Wal-Mart might bring to her Upper West Side district, so overrun with economic development that she can apparently turn companies away. Perhaps she's waiting for a Toyota plant. Brewer helps run a city where rookie cops earn $25,000 a year. On an hourly basis, that's barely above what Wal-Mart is paying in its Secaucus, N.J., store. Maybe the cops can get a second job to make ends meet, since they can't afford to live in the city they protect. The same city where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wal-Mart: Please Come to New York! | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...just worked with a ditchdigger. Look, it's hard work and you earn your blisters, but at the end of the day there is a ditch where there wasn't one." A lot of these men and women in offices are making a great living, but when they leave their cubicle, their desk doesn't look any different than it did in the morning. A little dirt is good. What I try to do is debunk a lot of the platitudes. Like "work smart instead of hard." It makes good sense on the surface but if you don't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Someone's Gotta Love It | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

Like everything else in life, you earn your way up the ladder. You promise the best environment for the art. You give works to museums. And you mix a great drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Great Collection? | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...gone after some big fish. If we can successfully prosecute some of the known big offenders, we will not only earn thanks from the people but also send strong signals which will work as deterrents against future corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Corruption has emerged as a great threat." | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...Median hourly wage in 2006 of Mexican-born workers in the U.S. At that wage, it would have taken migrants 2.3 billion work hours to earn those remittances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Apr. 2, 2007 | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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