Borders considers employees who work 32 hours per week full-time, but under the new federal health law, employees who work 30 or more hours would be considered full-time.

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Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill said the ruling would dramatically cut back the hours welfare recipients would work, and undermine a key component of the new law -- work requirements.

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While common sense says that those who spend work hours popping out to the store for a new pair of shoes or surfing the Web for personal use probably cost employers something in lost productivity, there's no definitive proof that employee "downtime" is any more prevalent than it was a generation ago, when telephone and watercooler banter was in.

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At some point in the past three years, I realized we had a choice to make: Keep working late hours for little pay in the service of tyrannical bosses who berated us with accusations of insignificance, or work late hours for little pay in the service of a new, self-determined future.

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The in flight-wifi with T-Mobile works over water (as opposed to the GoGo system used on TransCon flights), and I was not only able to stay on top of the story, but be able to work on a new editorial article with a good few hours of lead time (compared to waiting and hearing about the news when I landed).

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After all, there are mutterings that another bout of protest will soon be under way, this time from the railway workers, angry that they must work harder for their new shorter working week of 35 hours.

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In the hours after the Twin Towers fell, a group of little known New Yorkers did heroic work stabilizing the pumps and controlling the massive breach that threatened to submerge lower manhattan.

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