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...sharing is an energy-saving idea whose time may have come. For a couple of bucks an hour, on top of a monthly or yearly membership fee, you can hop into a clean, gassed-up car and drive it as long as you like--and never pay for insurance or a single oil change. Companies like ZipCar, which is based in Cambridge, Mass., and expanded last week into Washington, maintain fleets of cars parked in convenient locations around town. Customers can pick up a car, drop it off when they're finished, and pay only for the hours they drive...
...keep the membership this year,” she says, “because I have a relationship there now and my routine is set. I also like that it’s not a part of Harvard. Different kinds of people go there...
...large community of Ukrainians and Russians in the greater Sacramento area, the Soltyses are thought to have immigrated to the U.S. as religious refugees--persecuted Pentecostal and Baptist minorities--and the two were looking for a church to call their own. This was the big interview to qualify for membership...
...dismissed out of hand. First, the study indicates there?s a 10 percent increase in perception among employees that employers have too much power. "People are really just learning how vulnerable workers are under current employment law," Larson says. "Interestingly for the AFL-CIO, one of the reasons union membership has declined so dramatically is that the union representatives were unable to communicate that vulnerability, and workers saw no reason to invest in unions...
...Fireman sees it, the conventional approach to business is boring, so bring on the controversy, play the game by your own rules, be a real entrepreneur. Back in the early 1990s, when he was already earning a seven-figure salary and bonuses, he was denied membership at a country club near his New England home. Fireman assumed the club turned him down because he is Jewish. He didn't fight for entry; he bought his own country club, decked out with an 18-hole golf course, an Olympic-size pool and tennis courts. That helps explain why he identifies with...