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...growing awareness of these risks, and not just becau se of the unpleasantness of cigarette smoke, that there has been a slew of legislation in the past few years banning smoking from the workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has classified secondhand smoke as a “potential occupational carcinogen” and has recommended that employers minimize occupational exposure in “all non-industrial work environments” by using “all available preventive measures.” While much attention and legislation has been targeted at employees in corporate offices and retail...
...breaks come not in the first two lines (as in, say, Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally") but in the fourth and sixth, giving the lyric room to build to a natural dramatic climax and the pianist room to paint his sound-portrait. Of course there's a slew of arpeggios (eight, to the all-time record 11 in "Great Balls") and the satyr-singer's invocation of the magic moment "when your hips start rockin'/ Honey, and your knees start knockin'." For a transcendent 1min, 58 secs., find the song on the Jerry Lee CD "25 All-Time Greatest...
This was, they said, the year the Emmys would be different. With "The Sopranos" out of the running (it aired no episodes during the Emmy calendar year, which runs from June to May), its usual slew of nominations were theoretically up for grabs. And while you'll be hearing a lot about the new blood at the Emmys - I'll get to that in a minute - the Emmys clearly set itself up to make plenty of conservative choices when it hands out the actual hardware in September. The more catholic nominations aside, "The West Wing" will probably be adding another...
...Fields has few options. The luxury market is getting ever more crowded as automakers, competing for the business of baby boomers entering their peak buying years, launch a slew of new models. Analysts estimate that margins on PAG brands now hover around 1%--compared with almost 9% at BMW--and that narrowing the gap will be a critical factor in how long Fields lasts in this job. At Mazda, he says, "I was very clear about confronting reality, focusing on accountability and execution." It's a game plan he hopes will work as well in London...
...whispering that the team wasn't merely incompetent. Rumor has it that players, including star defender Fan Zhiyi, threw the match against Costa Rica, a 2-0 defeat, to make a little cash. A boom in illegal sports gambling has tainted China's soccer league, which uncovered a slew of crooked referees and players fixing games last year. But Fan adamantly denies any wrongdoing, and soccer pundits speculate that Chinese authorities may be encouraging the controversy to discredit him. One of the few Chinese players to make it overseas, Fan, who plays for the Scottish side Dundee, has criticized...