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...requires all firms with more than 200 employees to give worker representatives one-third of the votes in the new "corporate assemblies" that replaced the traditional shareholders' meeting. Another idea being contemplated by the Labor Party is the "Gjest Baardsen fund," named after the legendary Norwegian version of Robin Hood. Like its name sake, the scheme would take money from successful companies and give it to unprofitable ones for salary hikes. Still other future programs would, according to Premier Nordli, continue slashing "differences in pay, wealth and other advantages...
...like a hod carrier for a bricklayer. With only a chorus of quizzical birds watching, Spence unsheathed a nine-iron from his bag and sent the first shot of spring skittering across the Charles. To paraphrase Jos Sedley in Vanity Fair: "Gad, there we were, singing away like--a robin...
...student also benefits from helping the communities by gaining concrete field experience," Robin B. Judson, a design school student and a program volunteer, said yesterday...
...Robin Cook, who wrote the fast, enjoyable book on which the movie is based, goes on Johnny Carson, and instead of saying, "I wrote Coma to make some money and to have a bit of fun with people's fears about hospitals," he says, "I wrote Coma because I felt people should be made aware of the urgent need for organ donors, and of the emerging black market for body parts." Yeah, sure...
...Robin Lane Band--Club Zircon...