Word: foremen
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...hard to persuade workers to buy your burgers or your shoes when they can get all they want for free. No one who works at ground zero--from cops to construction foremen making $90 an hour overtime--has to pay for anything there. Nonprofits never had much of a presence in Gordon Gecko Land, but with millions pouring in to anyone with "9/11" in his organization's name, they are now the dominant economic force in the Ground Zero District. And even when it comes to charity, the cold rules of New York City bureaucracy and capitalism apply...