The cover for the single "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," in 1984, shows Viv Nicholson, a Yorkshire cake-factory worker, a winner and famously fast spender of a lucrative football pool in 1961, fully owning the middle of a rutted street.
Four co-workers of one winner, Pat Wales, had filed a suit asserting that 19 people, including Ms. Wales, had contributed to an office pool and agreed to share any winnings.
The accelerated pace of globalization means more losers as well as more winners; workers' fears that they will lose their jobs to Chinese factories and Indian call centers aren't irrational.
That's unfair to the worker and the winner.
He's a hard worker and a winner, but he's humble and mature.
Fast Track gives Congress a fine opportunity to express our values as a country, and show that workers can be winners, even over objections from the Obama administration.
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Actuary Hymans Robertson, for instance, said when the new scheme was being designed that public-sector workers would be "clear winners" and far better off than those in the private sector who would probably be "substantially worse off".
"American consumers and workers were the clear winners thanks to the Cash for Clunkers program," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
But, inevitably, the change will mean winners (self-employed workers are the clearest example) and losers and the latter are likely to make the most noise.
Suzuki, a loyal and longtime party worker, was the dark-horse winner of the LDP presidency, which assured him the prime ministership.
