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...same time corporate executives are paid retirement dollars for years they never worked, hapless employees lose supplemental retirement benefits for a lifetime of actual work. Just ask Betty Moss. She was one of thousands of workers at Polaroid Corp.--the Waltham, Mass., maker of instant cameras and film--who, beginning in 1988, gave up 8% of their salary to underwrite an employee stock-ownership plan, or ESOP. It was created to thwart a corporate takeover and "to provide a retirement benefit" to Polaroid employees to supplement their pension, the company pledged. Alas, it was not to be. Polaroid was slow...
...black people by taking back a word from white racists. Eddie (Barry Shabaka Henley, reprising Cedric's character) scoffs that young people know the term from rap videos, while he knows it from Klan rallies, at which, incidentally, "there wasn't no hot young things shakin' it like a Polaroid." When it turns out the Niggaz franchise is owned by a salt-of-the-earth Asian American, no one is quite sure where he fits into the racial equation...
...drop in the Dow beat the mark set in 1929, the decline is not comparable to the Great Crash. Experts maintain that it is a temporary pause in the bull market. A court decision leads Kodak to stop production of instant cameras and film, leaving the field to Polaroid. The Federal Reserve cracks down on the use of junk bonds in takeovers...
...encourage the dignitaries to pose, Adams and his assistants, Picture Researcher Polly Matthews and Photographer's Assistant James Keyser, displayed Polaroid shots of the first sitters just inside the door of the makeshift studio. Time Inc.'s Jeannette Doné, who speaks five languages, escorted officials into the studio and put them at ease with multilingual small talk...
Italy's Craxi, whose governing coalition toppled two weeks ago, rolled up his country's flag "as if," says Adams, "he were none too certain about the future." Britain's Thatcher, surveying the Polaroid shots, dismissed the lot. Said she: "They all look like passport photos." But even the indomitable Maggie would probably agree that Adams' portraits are as eloquent and revealing as any speech given at the U.N. last week...