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...husband (Barry Hankerson), who has been enjoying the high wages and low life that go with working on the pipeline. His boss is a sneering meanie who owns half the town, runs a prostitute colony on the side and periodically sabotages construction work in order to prolong the rake-offs he and his colleagues are taking...
...holidays themselves so much as a weekend-extending device known as il ponte (the bridge). When a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, about 35% of Italy's work force routinely call in sick on Monday or Friday, using the day as a bridge to prolong the weekend to four days. This year, adept bridgers have been able to take off an extra 20 days with no loss in pay. But next year, with at most two midweek holidays on the fiesta calendar, bridging is doomed...
...become a profoundly perplexing question for doctors and, indeed, all of society: Should heroic measures-respirators and other marvels of modern medical technology-be used to prolong the lives of the dying who no longer want to live? Last week California gave its answer. It became the first state to legalize the right of the terminally ill to decree their own deaths...
...there in the venerable "White House of the Confederacy"?the 158-year-old mansion where President Jefferson Davis lived at Richmond. Since the turn of the century, awed Southerners have walked through the hallowed building?along with curious Yankees. Together, they and the memorabilia helped to prolong the cliché of the South as a place where the clocks were frozen on the afternoon of April...
Appeals could prolong the battle for years. But if control of Krug is finally sold, both brothers will prosper. Estimates are that the sale would bring about $40 million, of which both Robert and Peter would each stand to collect $10 million before taxes...