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...extra chromosome. You have to have extraordinary dedication and discipline to succeed in politics, because you're never off. You and I can go home, and that's it. But there's no downtime in politics. Things are always happening. You can be confronted by somebody at the supermarket; you lose all privacy. And it's exhausting. John McCain and Barbara Boxer, for two, have a wicked commute just to get back and forth to the Senate. So it takes an extraordinary person. I often say that actually, our politicians deserve a better system than we have, in that...
...extra chromosome. You have to have extraordinary dedication and discipline to succeed in politics, because you're never off. You and I can go home, and that's it. But there's no downtime in politics. Things are always happening. You can be confronted by somebody at the supermarket; you lose all privacy. And it's exhausting. John McCain and Barbara Boxer, for two, have a wicked commute just to get back and forth to the Senate. So it takes an extraordinary person. I often say that actually, our politicians deserve a better system than we have, in that...
...enough to enrich a favorite charity upon their death. But rather than leave a legacy at life's end, they choose to live their legacy now. For Maxworthy, that meant using his connections to reclaim tons of fruit destined for the dump because, though perfectly edible, it wasn't supermarket grade. "There's plenty of fast food," he says, "but [those with low incomes] have very limited access to fresh produce...
...greener equipment to meet this giant customer's desire to shrink its carbon footprint. And to the economy itself: the "Wal-Mart effect" of those $4 generics is being cited as one reason drug prices are falling after years of double-digit inflation, just as its entry into the supermarket trade moderated food inflation...
...critics such as Wal-Mart Watch and Wake Up Wal-Mart, these improvements are just crumbs from the corporate table. Wal-Mart's national hourly-wage average of $10.74 is more or less competitive with Target or Kmart, but its total package still lags behind union competitors in the supermarket industry...