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...been paying into Social Security since 1938 -- one year after workers began contributing to President Roosevelt's new program -- and amazingly, he pays into it still. At age 78, Harlow Savage prides himself on showing up at the office, dapper in his tweed jacket with walking cane, every workday morning at the engineering company that he founded in Bloomfield, Connecticut. If anyone has earned his retirement benefits, it would seem, it is Savage. But he doesn't see it that way. Though he still has Social Security taxes deducted from his six-figure salary, Savage and his wife also receive...
That could slow down the light-speed pace of the information revolution. There is hardly a company in the industrialized world that hasn't tried to boost productivity by moving work onto computers. Some 70 million Americans -- including more and more schoolchildren -- already spend part of their workday at a keyboard. When the so-called information highway gets built, they could spend even more of their days and nights hunched over glowing screens, bodies perfectly still except for their fingers flying over the keys...
Stanford senior Romesh Ratnesar earned a place in intern lore by finishing one workday in the Business section at 8 a.m., having spent the previous 22 hours juggling three assignments, including fact checking a late-breaking story about the now defunct CBS-QVC deal. Ratnesar's comment on the episode typifies the enthusiasm that all the interns have injected into our working lives this summer. Says he: "You hardly notice the time...
...lose early and win late, fall behind and catch up. The good guys win, to an orchestral crescendo (Rudy, for example, is a symphony with a movie attached). They are carried off on the shoulders of a cheering mob -- just the way we'd all like to end our workday...
...Chicago Board of Trade by 6 a.m. to begin the business of trading that can last until 9 p.m. The trading day for stocks and bonds has grown to marathon proportions as well. Sophia Ulanday, who sells U.S. stocks for Lehman Brothers in Hong Kong, begins her workday at 7 a.m. and frequently toils until 1 a.m. to stay in touch with the home office in New York...