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...think the thing about Jim is that he's very rarely willing to take chances. He's more comfortable being in a stable job where he's paid what he's paid and he does what he does, even though I think that there's something bubbling beneath him that wants him to go somewhere else. I hope that I'm the type of guy who, when I have a big idea or a big aspiration, I at least give it a shot...
Finance scholars also bolted a third plank onto Smith's two reasons this was so and would continue to be: stocks were riskier than bonds, and stock investors were thus being paid a premium for taking on that additional risk...
...Ricci v. DeStefano. In that case, white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., challenged the city's decision to ignore the results of a promotion test after there were no black firefighters among the top scorers. One of 20 white firefighters who brought the case, Frank Ricci, is dyslexic and paid an acquaintance more than $1,000 to read study guides for the test onto audiotapes. Ricci scored sixth out of 77 - high enough to merit the promotion. But the city, fearing that it could be sued for discrimination, decided to promote...
...waiting half an hour in a line of 20 people at the dusty ATM, Eduard Markov finally walks away with his old leather wallet bulging with rubles. Like thousands of others in the northern Russian industrial town of Pikalyovo, the 44-year-old clay-quarry worker had not been paid in three months. But now he at least has enough to buy the basics - meat, vodka, noodles, oil and fruit - from shops that just a few days ago were empty of customers...
...have seen anything like this - people were fed up and angry," says Alexander Plush, 41, another former factory worker standing in line at the ATM. Plush had worked for 17 years at one of the Pikalyovo cement factories until it closed a few months ago. "Before we got paid, people were living on bread and water and the food they could grow in their gardens this early in the year," he says...