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...down price movements of IBM stock during the twelve-month period are the melody. When the trading volume rose sharply, the music is stronger. For variety, other sounds were added to the score. Bells and chimes ring when there were indications of insider trading, and surf crashes when the stock hit a high...
...COURSE THESE strikes are mere ripples on the pond of U.S. capitalism, compared to the days of high surf in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, the American labor movement (if you can even call it that) is practically at a standstill. Unions have taken on bad names through corrupt leadership practices and their lack of accountability to members. Union membership dropped steadily over recent years and continues to do so today. Nevertheless, while unions currently can be as mean-and-nasty as the businesses they struggle to gain concessions from, they constitute the worker's sole voice in the face...
...adjustment was a tough one at first. "Everybody thought I should have blond hair and blue eyes--I have brown hair and brown eyes. But I surf--not very well. I play a beach sport. I take things that are not significant lightly." He was not the typical Harvard freshman, if there is such a thing. Three of his four roommates were devoted to academics, but school was never Doyle's biggest concern...
...Hawaiians, while Bill Gold, co-owner of a vintage clothing store called Repeat Performance in Los Angeles, will go on buying trips to the Midwest to ferret out some good old numbers that have long been packed away -- perhaps in embarrassment. Now, in the islands, says Dave Rockland of Surf Line Hawaii, "we're fighting to make deliveries. It's the Cabbage Patch doll phenomenon...
...here it be, Mother dear. Final exams are a vague, distant memory and the surf is bitchin'. See you in September...