Last year, in perhaps the most famous example of this brain-dead, knee-jerk policy, Circuit City, the giant electronics retailer, announced its so-called "wage management initiative". The plan: fire its most talented and experienced employees in favor of younger workers making less money.
The bar's unusual name derives from a strange Prohibition-era epidemic known as "jake leg," which Dan Baum described in a 2003 New Yorker article: The men's feet dangled, their legs hung dead below the knee.
'In hospital I had two operations to remove blood clots, and then the doctors said they would have to remove my leg because it was dead below the knee,' she said.
"A lot of these lame weary gimps around town," he observes, "were wounded veterans of the timber wars, guys with tight shoulders, lumbar complaints, calcified knees, dead toes.
"It's not a bad injury, it's a dead leg on my knee," Shaw explained.
A dead scan of the knee was taken post mortem and this value was subtracted from all measurements to account for any optical noise in the tissue.
Nearby is a second lab, and that is where Fleisig, the research director at the American Sports Medicine Institute, keeps the body parts, dead shoulders, elbows and knees.
Crawling through this I found the interior in a horrible condition; water in which floated indescribable filth reached our knees; two dead Boche sprawled face downwards and another lay across a wire bed.
He is more of a ham, and yet his showbiz theatrics - tears welling up in his eyes, dropping to his knees, playing dead - seem to work for this crowd, although there are stifled guffaws when he trips over.
A young bull, probably less than 15 years old, had fallen to his knees, shot dead.
