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...jobs in the next few years. Such cutbacks have hollowed out the core of American manufacturing, from which labor has traditionally drawn its rank and file. The number of U.S. autoworkers, for example, has shrunk from nearly 1 million in 1985 to 750,000 today, while steel employment has fallen from...
...also created new receptiveness for union organizers among surviving employees who find themselves overworked and stressed out. Labor productivity, which measures the hourly output of workers, grew a robust 3.2% last year, the best showing since 1964, while paychecks got smaller. In inflation-adjusted dollars, average weekly wages have fallen from $272 10 years ago to $254 today. Adding insult to injury, the gap between executive compensation and ordinary pay has been rapidly widening. According to compensation expert Graef Crystal, the earnings of chief executive officers of major corporations have zoomed from 33 times the average income of U.S. workers...
Well it should have. Colgate hockey had fallen pretty far from its NCAA-finalist year of 1990, and it's good for the ECAC to see the Red Raiders again plundering the competition. Right now, it's playing like a charmed hockey team, and until it snaps out of its spell, Colgate can beat any team in the country...
...fallen for Sally, but Linda's name is tattooed on your forearm. No problem if you live in Britain, where the overburdened National Health Service will obligingly pay to remove it -- cost $53 -- as often as your shifting affections require. You want to take that package holiday to Mallorca, but you haven't got the cash. In Germany most unionized and salaried workers are given extra "vacation money," usually half their regular monthly pay. Such is the solicitous treatment Europeans have come to expect. But not for much longer...
...exchange drew no headlines, probably because it was Perot's personal vulnerability that stole the show. In a TIME/ CNN poll taken after the debate last week, only 18% of those surveyed said Perot won the debate, vs. 47% for Gore. Perot's overall popularity has fallen too. Just 35% said they have a generally favorable impression of him, down sharply from over 52% last summer. What kind of President would Perot make? A bad one, said 57% of those in the TIME/ CNN survey...