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...think of Jean-Paul, a Haitian-born janitor in one of the local schools. He's a janitor only at night. By day he works an eight-hour factory shift. That leaves eight hours a day, on average, for sleeping, eating, commuting, washing and brooding, as Jean-Paul often does, on the meaning of his life...
...while the experts cannot agree on whether abuses are up or down, few dispute that they are common -- and sadly predictable. Even in the best of times, police work is dangerous and stressful, and an officer can face several life-or-death decisions during a single eight-hour watch. The pressures have mounted in recent years as crack has poured into the inner cities, giving rise to drug-dealing gangs armed with automatic weapons -- and the hairtrigger temperament to use them...
...cease promising the imminent return of services, something they are weeks if not months away from accomplishing. In a particularly significant triumph shortly before he welcomed home Kuwait's Emir last Thursday, Gnehm persuaded the electrical-repair teams to begin toiling around the clock; previously, they were putting in eight-hour days. "Imagine," says another Western diplomat, "Kuwait is falling apart, and something that obvious has to be counted as a diplomatic coup...
...waste of the current system is enormous. Paying a guard for an eight-hour shift at the standard rate of $7.75 per hour (many earn more) costs $62, not even including benefits and payroll taxes. That means that Harvard shells something like $180,000 per academic year just to protect the six libraries I looted...
...based company bought control of Csepel, Hungary's bicycle monopoly, for $1 million. Before Schwinn arrived, Csepel was producing a single bulky model. To get the venture up to speed, Schwinn doubled the average wage of Csepel employees, to about $210 a month, and demanded that they work full eight-hour shifts instead of leaving early to moonlight. Schwinn installed new painting and welding equipment and developed sporty new models. The company expects the improvements to pay off later this year when the joint venture starts exporting a new line of low-priced, 18-gear mountain bikes...