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...Meanwhile, the UAW has allowed new employees to be hired at lower wages. Under the 2007 contracts it signed with GM, Ford and Chrysler, new blue collar workers start at $14 per hour, rather than the $28 per hour paid senior employees. New workers also get a 401(k), instead of a defined-benefit pension plan, and a restricted menu of health-care plans...
...capacity by about 10 percent, MBTA spokesperson Lydia M. Rivera said. She said that the MBTA has equipped the new cars with additional straps and hand rails for customers to hold onto while riding. Only one train with Big Red cars will be in service for the weekday rush hour period. The cars will be labeled with signs, so customers will be able to choose whether or not to take the new trains with fewer seats. The trial period for the pilot program will run indefinitely while the MBTA garners and gauges customer feedback. “We?...
...scheme (pastel pink, baby-blue, indigo and bright red), devised the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles to make a word, and conceived the name "Scrabble." The first Scrabble factory was an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Connecticut, where Brunot and several gracious friends manufactured 12 games an hour. When the chairman of Macy's discovered the game on vacation and decided to stock his shelves with it, the game exploded. By 1952, Brunot's homegrown assembly line was churning out more than 2,000 sets a week. Nearly 4 million Scrabble sets were sold in 1954 alone...
Green Air. Emirates begins nonstop service this week between Dubai and San Francisco. To make the 16-hour flight on a Boeing 777 as green as possible, the airline will fly a direct route over Russia, minimize idling time on the ground and even wash the planes before take-off to reduce drag. Emirates is also launching Airbus A380 service between Dubai and London...
...stuffed purse in his little hands. “Where will you go now?”“To finish it,” said The Stable Boy.************Where was he? Felicity looked at the jeweled watch upon her dressing table. It had been a full half hour since she had sent the footman to the stables.It had become increasingly unbearable for Felicity to see her husband and that doxy of a chambermaid canoodling in her house. He had vowed to be hers forevermore under the sight of God, Don Juan Jaime—the priest?...