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According to Rebecca Roth, Crate & Barrel's designer, smoke detectors within the building did not trigger the alarm. Instead, employees said, they smelled smoke and someone pulled the fire alarm...
...whores and bitches and subjected to groping, forced sex play and male flashing. Explicit sexual graffiti such as KILL THE SLUT MARY were scrawled on rest-area and bathroom walls. In a particularly egregious case, a worker put his air gun between a woman's legs and pulled the trigger. Declared a line supervisor: "I don't want any bitches on my line. Women don't belong in the plant...
...PREGNANT WOMEN should avoid tobacco smoke--their own and other people's. The fumes can pass toxic compounds to the fetus, which may ultimately trigger childhood leukemia or other cancers...
Those anxieties may seem quaint to us now, but they were real enough then to trigger a deep sense of discontent and unease. That kind of transcendental disquiet has surfaced over and over again in our political campaigns. Its persistence is less about introspection than about a uniquely American strain of denial...
...exports, buy heavily in U.S. Treasury bills. By virtue of the trade deficit, Japan's holdings of U.S. Treasuries are huge. If Japan ever started selling those bonds, U.S. interest rates would rise and the stock market would plummet. As a Japanese official put it, "Japan can pull the trigger on U.S. financial markets." But Japan would hurt itself in the process. The rise in rates and the drop of the U.S. dollar would make it more difficult for the U.S. to pay its debts, and for its consumers to buy Japanese products...