And author Miranda Sawyer, who grew up in Cheshire's Wilmslow - "a pink jumper, white stilettos kind of a town" - and wrote Park and Ride about suburban culture, says the 'burbs have always exerted a huge influence on mainstream society.

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They were in some kind of development of cheap little pink and blue dwellings.

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Drawing on an MIT study, Pink argues that financial compensation does not produce more of the kind of highly conceptual work that is Google's stock in trade.

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See, for folks like these, the small business tax cuts this administration has passed mean the difference between those kind of businesses hiring new employees or handing out pink slips.

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