As Amazonâs payroll has swelled to 110,000 employees, however, the program is exacting a toll, current and former employees say. There are several hundred bar raisers today across the company, according to former employees, though Amazon wonât confirm a total.
For the millions who've sat motionless in shock as the president signed a de facto Muslim ban and set the stage for war with China, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Germany and the star of Kindergarten Cop, 78-year-old Maxine Waters is a gift from the heaven many of us never thought existed.
In a roaring decade where Americans cheered daredevils, few were as celebrated as Ederle, who was 20 when she made her historic swim on Aug. 6, 1926. People said women couldn't swim the channel, Ederle told Associated Press in a 2001 interview marking the 75th anniversary of her feat.