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...aerospace, a cyclical industry that's in a downturn, Boeing's 92,000 nonunionized employees will for the first time face payroll deductions (up to $105 a month) for health insurance. (Deals with Boeing's 58,000 unionized workers are negotiated separately.) Boeing's health costs, says spokesman Ken Mercer, are rising 15% annually and are projected to hit $2.5 billion by 2005. Boeing doesn't expect a turnaround in the airline industry until at least that year, meaning that health-care costs will probably grow faster than revenues...
...extra $100 a month if their spouses or domestic partners who are employed elsewhere decline coverage from their employers. The drawback to such plans is that they are "administratively difficult--you have to get more involved in aspects of a family life," says Barry Schilmeister, a principal with Mercer Human Resource Consulting...
...Shins’ 2001 debut album Oh! Inverted World, “New Slang” perfectly captured the mood of a man who, though not wallowing in a bygone love, constantly glanced backward and lived in its shadow. On Chutes Too Narrow, Mercer projects the image of a changed man from the moment a brash electric guitar breaks in to start “Kissing the Lipless...
...Saint Simon” is the true gem, a moderately paced tune which begins with the simple harmonies of a ’60s Beatles song and effortlessly transitions into a mesmerizing, haunting melody which Mercer hums over romantic strings. When the instrumentation takes a back seat to Mercer’s voice, the Shins’ poetry shines through, showing how the band’s ideology has changed...
...dismissed for her venality, but the godlike image we have of African-American athlete Jesse Owens comes from Olympia, her film of the 1936 Summer Games, made under Nazi auspices. This suggests that however much she cooperated with those in power, her aesthetic remained her own. DANIEL MERCER Pennsauken...