Word: workers
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...seductive lead-in for this juicy collection of true tales. Bronson profiles the inventor who finances his idea by growing pot, the programmer who blows off a major project for a squirrel-hunting trip, the project manager who fantasizes about murdering a co-worker. Even the used-cubicle broker has his charms. As in his fictional satires, Bombardiers and The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, this clever storyteller keeps you laughing as you breeze from one episode to the next...
...bringing along two sons and 50 violins. The tiny instruments were a settlement of sorts--bought for $5,000 to teach kids in Greece, where she was stationed as a military wife, and kept when her marriage ended and she returned to the U.S. The daughter of a factory worker, she had taken up violin in fourth grade at her public school. "It should be an inalienable right for every child to have music education," she insists. To remedy what Jefferson overlooked, she moved to East 118th Street and brought the sound of strings to three public schools...
...percent of the population have raised their share of wealth 40 percent . The average C.E.O. earned 326 times the wage of the agerage factory worker," she said...
...they headed out into a new life, the graduates weren't thinking about what might be taken away but what could be got back. Albert Merrill, 55, a former clerical worker, holds out his 28-day pin and six-month coin, and next month will pass his first year sober. He dreams of the day when he can walk back into the life of his ex-wife and kids. "This is a gift," he says quietly of his diploma...
Like the Spanish Bourbons, the Romanovs inherited the hemophilia gene from Queen Victoria. But striking the heir Alexis, it proved fatal to the dynasty. The Czarina Alexandra fell under the influence of the Siberian wonder worker Rasputin--and she interfered with policy with disastrous results. Well-meaning but weak, Czar Nicholas could only give way to war, upheaval and finally the Bolsheviks, who massacred the family in a cellar on July...