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...Picking" means roaming the aisles of the Seattle distribution center, filling customer orders from shelves packed with titles arranged according to a bewildering strategy called "random stow" that leaves Toni Morrison: A Womanist Discourse abutting Garfield's Extreme Student Planner. This facility is the smallest of Amazon's nine worldwide distribution centers. But today the place is humming with hundreds of pickers pushing around carts piled high with books and other products destined to land under thousands of Christmas trees...
...seeing any more customers, Elizabeth grabs an armful of freshly returned cassettes and begins to stow them. "Putting the videos away is so monotonous," she says. But she is making $5.90 an hour and claims her work here "is really easy." Between Hollywood Video and nearby Kraus Farms Equestrian Center, where she teaches horseback riding, Elizabeth works 40 hours a week. This year she plans to earn $14,400--nearly what her mother makes as a bank teller...
Just about five years ago, some young fellows enrolled in a music business course at Stow College collaborated with a group of Scottish musicians to produce an album and release 1,000 copies. The group, which was later signed to a British and then American label, have rapidly put out two LPs and four EPs (members in the band pressing two additional full-length albums as side-projects). In the quasi-fascist recording environment of label-dominated markets, this is almost unheard of production...
That's one reason some 300 of the FORTUNE 500 companies have installed smoke hoods on their corporate jets. And it's why safety-minded staff members of the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board--which investigates air crashes--regularly stow smoke hoods in carry-on luggage when they...
Most important, gather records of your stock purchases and stow them. Digging up brokerage statements years after the fact is never easy and is the main reason more shareholders don't file claims. Another reason is simply not knowing about a settlement. If you move or change your name or account, the courts may not find you. So call your broker, the company's investor-relations department or the lead attorneys in the case every six months for an update. Sure, it's a hassle. But even in a bull market, you have to work a little...