Word: worker
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...coming months, according to the British employers' organization, the CBI. In the meantime, British holidaymakers used to vacationing in France or Spain are making plans for breaks closer to home. Outside the Bank of England, which moved to its present central London site in 1734, one oil-industry worker with a fondness for European travel says he'll "just sit tight" until the pound gets stronger again. Behind him, the city's buses shuttle workers home, with posters on their sides trumpeting the latest movie releases: Slumdog Millionaire, Seven Pounds, The Broken. They almost read like signs of the times...
...never seen anything like this: neighbors so afraid they're threatening violence against strangers. "I heard from one guy who said, 'If I see someone who I don't know walking in my backyard, they're going to have to carry him out,' " says Pawlowski, 75, a retired newspaper worker. "And he said that with malice in his voice...
...says Karie Bible, an analyst with Exhibitor Relations. Surely Eastwood could not have predicted, when he first set out to make the film, that Detroit's economic woes would be making national headlines by the time Gran Torino arrived in theaters (his character is a retired Ford assembly-plant worker), nor that the movie would be launching into wide release the same day the U.S. government released the darkest unemployment report in 16 years...
...incompetence. "It was heartbreaking to watch America welcome a leader who they actually revere and place all their hope in, while here we are literally banging down the government's door to get them to listen to us," says Erla Bjarnadóttir, 32, an unemployed office worker, before she returns to pounding her saucepan outside parliament. "We've lost all faith in our leaders." (See pictures of Obama's inauguration...
...Perhaps the best investment in the bill is for $80 million to ensure that worker protection laws are enforced as recovery infrastructure investments are carried out. In other words, there will be a police system set up to make sure that no one with a new job working on national infrastructure with money provided by the government will have his or her rights violated...