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...editor of a men's magazine, a great deal of your workday must necessarily be devoted to answering the question, What does the man of the '90s want? The current issues of a number of men's magazines provide a possible answer: puns involving the words ball or balls. THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR BALLS promises a piece on golf in GQ. DON'T DROP THE BALL says the headline to an article in Men's Health urging early detection of testicular cancer. Maxim, a rude import from Britain that has just published its premiere issue in America, features a photograph...
...many crew members are focusing on improving overall industry conditions by curtailing hours. In a campaign prompted by Hershman's death, Haskell Wexler, a renowned cinematographer (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), is leading a petition drive to impose a 14-hour workday. "People are working as zombies," he says. Among those who have signed are Julia Roberts, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Nichols, Sally Field and Harold Ramis...
...nonpartisan Tax Foundation reported that the average American spends 1 hr. and 53 min. of each workday just to pay the Federal Government. Here's how your day breaks down according to where some of that cash is going...
...last week was remarkable. For Blackman, who met Albright when she was working on Geraldine Ferraro's 1984 vice-presidential campaign and has kept in touch with Albright's network of close women friends, it was a chance to renew old ties. Waller, meantime, followed Albright through a typical workday, riding in her limousine and sitting in on meetings from 7:30 a.m. until late in the evening. "She's fun to cover," says Waller, our new State Department correspondent. "But I came away exhausted just watching the pace she kept...
...become a crutch to eliminate face-to-face contact.' I want them to feel an emotional stake in this process." Like all the managers, Posner faxes his orders to his trader each morning and usually doesn't trade again all day. Eighty percent of his workday is spent on the phone to companies or meeting with executives. True to his metier, he relies heavily on corporate financial statements: "They tell me what can realistically be accomplished...