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...White House in 1994, Kathleen Willey's day-to-day life has become hand-to-mouth. She has worked as a receptionist at a Richmond hair salon. During the 1996 presidential campaign, Willey was in the middle of a four-month stint at the city's Montana Gold Bread Co., a place she used to patronize. With a T shirt, an apron and a bandanna, she was responsible for the cinnamon rolls early in the day and later for muffins, kneading bread and waiting on the clientele. "I thought she might be a snob at first when...
...talking bread lines here. There are still jobs to be had--at exorbitant pay levels. At the end of last year securities-industry employment stood at a record 286,000. But that's up only 10% from 10 years ago. In the same period New York Stock Exchange trading volume (a proxy for how much business Wall Street does) increased 178%, and the industry last year posted record pretax profits of $12.2 billion. More work. More profit. Relatively few people. Sound familiar? Wall Street hadn't been totally left out. Its firms have been merging practically forever, but seldom...
...went for a beautiful walk today and learned that there is a large Portuguese population near Inman Square that makes wonderful bread. I am happy, and I learned more than I could have by writing the paper...
Stores like Bread and Circus have refused to sign the pledge for more than a year, insisting, despite documented evidence to the contrary, that conditions in the fields do not warrant complaint. As students, we can work to effect change by going in delegations to these stores to get them to sign the pledge and by discussing the issue with Harvard Dining Services. Despite our distance from the strawberry fields, our efforts in Cambridge can have a direct, meaningful and beneficial impact on the UFW's efforts...
...doorways, smoking pot, 'rapping' (achieving rapport with random talk), or banging beer cans in time to ubiquitous jukebox rhythms. Last week the sidewalks and doorways were filling with new arrivals just off the bus and looking for a place to 'crash' (sleep). They scorn money--they call it 'bread.' They feel 'uptight' (tense and frightened) about many disparate things--from sex to the draft, college grades to thermonuclear war." --July 7, 1967, from a cover story on San Francisco's hippies