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...people are hearing nasty things about their Social Security. Baby boomers are hearing even nastier things about their 401(k)s. The young, cheap or skilled are doing all right, but they're doing a lot of job-hopping, and they're now well aware that those stock options aren't going to retire anybody anytime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Economic Policy for Fall: Crossed Fingers | 9/6/2001 | See Source »

...than 15 months, especially when many of them are in new areas for the company." In the meantime, the big EMS players must also adjust to the economic woes of their customers. In a speech last month, Marks predicted that the telecom industry is "going to get a lot nastier, with a lot of dislocation"--referring to the number of plants (including his own) that are closing and to workers who will be laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Tech: You Name It, We'll Make It | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...nastier than that. When the Iceman was extensively X-rayed, researchers noticed a suspicious shadow under his left shoulder. Only recently was a CT scan used as well, and it confirmed that the shadow was an arrowhead. Its position made scientists wince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder in the Ice | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...whites too. Stoller?s uptempo bluesy charts (usually 12-bar blues) found the ideal blend of honking sax solos by King Curtis and the singers, who had distinct comic personality: Gardner?s lead tenor in a vaudeville vibrato of fear and trembling, Bobby Guy?s smart-guy growl (a nastier version of the Ray Charles tout-voice), Dub Jones? mindshaft bass delivering the cool catchphrases (as parent: "You better leave my daughter alone" and "Don?t talk back!"; as Charlie Brown: "Why is everybody always pickin? on me?") The Coasters? hits were loud, terse, vivid and un-sit-down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmet?s Atlantic: Baby, That Is Rock and Roll | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...nastier. When Marina, a 25-year-old from Chisinau was met in Budapest by a stocky Bosnian calling himself Ivo, he told her she was too ugly for prostitution and might have to be sold by the kilogram for her organs. Ivo then took her and a friend to a hideaway in northeastern Bosnia and raped them repeatedly over the next two days, introducing them to prospective buyers in the intervals. In Montenegro and Serbia, several women describe being lined up naked in the hotel room where they were held, in a kind of inspection line for slave shoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Slavery | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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