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...Sweden 25% of workers who retire early do so because of back troubles-in many cases on the basis of obviously phony claims. Keim says facetiously that such people are suffering from "green poultice syndrome": "These patients often respond miraculously to the application of $100 bills. When the pile of bills reaches the proper thickness, the 'poultice' takes effect and the patient is cured...
...lots of ice cream and watermelon and I'd open up all the presents and blow out the candles on the big red, white, and blue birthday cake and then we'd all sing "Happy Birthday" and "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy." At night everyone would pile into Bobby's mother's old car and we'd go down to the drive-in, where we'd watch the fireworks display. Before the movie started, we'd all get out and sit up on the roof of the car with our blankets wrapped around us watching the rockets and Roman...
Back at the plant's main gate, on Rte 1 next to the Hawaiian Garden Motel, other demonstrators attempt a "blockade." For the most part, these are the people who think fence-cutting is too militant. From nearby woods they have gathered limbs and rusting metal appliances, which they pile neatly in front of the gate, offerings to the god of civil disobedience. True to their part of the script, police come out from behind the gate, from a cordon, and let bulldozers push debris inside the fence, where dumptrucks haul it away. Across the street, Seabrook police--small town...
Unfortunately, when the invisible hand of the free market spanks the Big Three, somebody has to lose, and that usually means the workers. Sales plummet, stocks pile up, production stops; in some cases, such as the Ford plant in Mahwa, New Jersey, the closing is considered permanent. All the closings in the current rash of layoffs affect plants producing large and midsize cars or trucks. Meanwhile General Motors' Tarrytown, New York plant is working overtime to keep up with the burgeoning demand for subcompact X-cars...
Collectively, the states can afford a cancellation of revenue sharing; the 50 states are expected to pile up an aggregate surplus of $7.5 billion this year. But the Governors, and the mayors to whom they pass much federal cash, argue that revenue-sharing grants, which can be spent in virtually any way the recipients please, give them needed flexibility to meet local requirements. Says Pennsylvania's Republican Governor, Richard Thornburgh: "The President proposes to cut the kinds of programs best adapted to changing times, such as general revenue sharing, while retaining rigid categorical grants [those that finance specific activities...