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...unemployed, tighter controls on those claiming they are too ill to work, and welfare mothers to participate in work or training when their youngest child is of school age. Brash's message of personal responsibility and hard work is striking a chord with taxpayers. But, as one government social worker from Auckland (who asked not to be identified) has found, shifting the attitudes and behavior of younger people and residents of some geographic regions that have had little experience of paid work is an awesome challenge...
...young mother, carrying a child, identifies as a Labour voter but she wants to be persuaded to change her vote this time. Key zeroes in on National's tax cuts and a reduction in the high effective marginal tax rates she faces as a part-time social services worker. Key finds common ground with her on the problems in the welfare sector. As well, Key knows that staying nuclear-free is of immense importance to women aged 25 to 45; he calms her fears. After she is gone, Key says "I think we'll get her. She'll definitely vote...
...lost the perm and moon boots, but Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder still plays the outsider as an occult-bookstore worker in Just Like Heaven...
Rumors of heavy use of cocaine and other drugs have long been endemic on Wall Street, where incomes are often astronomical and the competitive pressure hyperintense. Besides the Brooks brokers, federal agents arrested a worker at Advest, a midsize brokerage, and one at Allied Capital, a money-management firm. They also hauled off five lower-level employees of New York's Depository Trust, the private clearinghouse where some $2.2 trillion in stock and bond certificates are stored for safekeeping...
...times--not always--when I hear John [Lennon] in my head," says McCartney. "I'll think, O.K., what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve. And one of the good things about working with Nigel is that he became more of a co-worker rather than a grownup producer. His opinion mattered to me in a way that made me want to impress...