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...brave souls who ran the Boston Marathon: "Forspent with toil, as runners with a race" ("3 Henry...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: 435 Candles | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

After 19 years on the job, Herb Schrayshuen, 44, an engineer at a public utility in upstate New York, thought he knew the drill: toil away for another 15 or 20 years, then drift off into a cozy retirement on the back of a nice, fat company pension. But last summer his employer threw a wrench into that plan. The utility converted the old-fashioned pension system, in which employees earn the bulk of benefits during their last few years, into a new cash-balance plan, in which they earn at a steadier rate throughout their careers. It sounded simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Pension Swap | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...Wolverines at the Rose Bowl and proudly outfitted himself in Michigan sweatshirts and caps. Then last summer, during an internship with the AFL-CIO, he started to hear how Michigan and other colleges get their sportswear--by employing licensing companies that use overseas factories where garment workers toil long hours, often for pennies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campus Awakening | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Truthfully, I'm not a member of the 700 club, nor do I toil against the pursuit of verdant uncentered portraits of dead presidents in the name of Big Government and Che Guevara. Get yours, if you must; I will not be a red octagon for the capitalist driver or passenger. However, as a long-time hip-hop fan, I do hate two things: lies and wack-ness. Both of which seem to permeate mainstream...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING: The MC's Job, Apparently | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...besides projecting an image of "maternal chic," would one opt to spend hours of toil on a pair of socks when one could support the local sweatshop by picking up a pair at Filene's Basement? Like foxhunts, senior theses and binge drinking, the point is the process, not the end result. "Nothing says I love you like a pair of well-knit socks," claims Lowell House sophomore Michael C. Large...

Author: By Nia C. Stephens, | Title: Everything Old is New Again: | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

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