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...high rollers are uppercrust DINKs, double-income, no-kids couples. They flourish in the pricier suburbs as well as in gentrified urban neighborhoods. There is no time for deep freezers or station wagons in their voracious, nonstop schedules. Many enterprising DINK couples slave for a combined 100-hour-plus workweek, a pace relieved by exotic vacations and expensive health clubs. Their hectic "time poor" life-style often forces them to schedule dinners with each other, and in some supercharged cases, even...
...romantic parts of their party platform into clearer, although still hazy, proposals. Three weeks ago, in a party caucus at Sindelfingen, the Greens drew up a manifesto calling for banks and factories to be converted from private to "other modes" of ownership. Other proposals include a shorter workweek to decrease Germany's 9.5 percent unemployment rate and adoption of a long-term goal of domestic economic self-sufficiency. Public uncertainty has hurt the Greens in the past; it was difficult to support a party that dealt mainly in rhetoric. But with these first faltering steps toward Green political maturity...
...would return it to the dark ages-season after season burdened with overwhelming deficits." Though the Met has made money in the past four seasons, its surpluses have been minuscule-just $102,000 last year, for example. By the Met's reckoning, the musicians would drop the workweek from 25 hours to 21, while their average salary would rise from $37,200 to $40,000. This, says Bliss, is "off the wall." The union disputes the Met's figures, and further maintains that the musicians' real work week includes as many as four hours...
...station two for one," says Mickie. They share a single reporter's salary and take turns acting as host on a daily two-hour phone-in talk show. Since they are the station's entire news department, they divide up the news-gathering duties throughout the workweek. It depends on who's busier. "We never know which one will show up," says the station's general manager, Ray Stanfield, "but one of them always does." Mickie, married to a doctor, is the mother of two. Teddi, wife of a lawyer, has three children. Both admit that...
Applicants are told the workweek is 40 hours, 2 to 10 p.m. weekdays. But, as one fellow salesman told me, "After they get you through training and you learn all the shit, they tell you it starts at 12:30" -and the usual hour for ending the work day is midnight. About six hours of required work each Saturday makes the total normal workweek about 65 hours...