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...trouble in this paradise. One veteran comes home to a sweetheart who has fallen in love with his brother. There are stirrings of race and sex discrimination as well. A black veteran applies for work at the local factory but is told the only opening is for a janitor. A widowed mother is fired from her factory job to make room for the returning vets. Her boss's advice: "Find yourself a husband...
...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...
Would you risk earning less in exchange for the chance to earn more? U.S. companies are putting that question to a growing number of workers these days in hopes of engineering a revolution in the way everyone, from janitor to junior executive, gets paid. The question lies at the heart of far-reaching new programs called pay-for-performance plans, which typically start with reduced base wages and salaries but reward employees with handsome bonuses for hitting production targets or meeting other goals. "This is the hottest area in compensation today," says Steven Gross, a vice president of Hay Management...
...roast burns. She gets all dreamy eyed when she dances around the living room to her Elvis records. No one speaks to her at PTA meetings or buys her Tupperware -- except the husbands, who further enrage their wives by giving it to them on their birthdays. The janitor throws out her oversweet, marshmallow-laden offering to the bake sale...
Despite Love Canal's reputation, more than 200 families have entered bids. The main attraction: bargain prices of $50,000 to $60,000, fully 20% below other Niagara Falls neighborhoods. Willie Mason, a janitor, looks forward to moving in. Says he: "Owning a home is the American dream...