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...MOST POTENT SYMBOL YET OF THE new economic order being ushered in by the North American Free Trade Agreement: Anheuser-Busch, makers of Budweiser, the basic American workingman's beer, has agreed to buy 18% of the Mexican maker of Corona, favored foam of gringo yuppiedom. Anheuser-Busch, the St. Louis-based sultan of suds, has paid $477 million for nearly a fifth of Grupo Modelo, S.A. de C.V., the king of beers south of the border. The deal, which could be the first step toward an even greater presence in the Modelo empire, is Anheuser-Busch's first major...
...workingman's blues theme is given a comical twist in these black-and- white magazine portraits of frustrating moments. A woman ties her dog to the side of the house; when it lunges, the whole structure collapses. In another, just as a laborer is finishing a perfect sidewalk, a friendly pup trots through the wet cement to visit him. The bottom line: "Fortunately, every day comes with an evening." And a soothing whiskey, perhaps...
...idea for these latter-day gladiatorial games originated with ironworkers in Erie, Pa. "I wanted a workingman's Olympics," says Dann Carr, a five-time national arm-wrestling champ, who created the contests 20 years ago as entertainment for the annual Erie Iron Workers Union picnic, "but I never thought it would take off like...
ESSAY Barbara Ehrenreich on the fate of the workingman...
...factories, construction sites and shipyards across the U.S., girly pinups -- often so anatomically explicit they would make Betty Grable blush -- are the workingman's constant companion. Although women hold 8.6% of skilled blue- collar jobs, their presence has done little to diminish the existence of these graphic images. For their part, courts have been reluctant to rule that pornographic pictures constitute a form of sexual harassment in the workplace, mainly because such photos are ubiquitous...