You don't get rich, you get Rich Tea

Article Abstract:

UK biscuit manufacturer United Biscuits has a research and development unit which samples biscuits. Prospective assessors need to pass 3 tests: to prove that they can distinguish between sweet, sour, salty, and bitter; odour recognition and biscuit sampling. The assessor's function does not include preference expression. Employees work for 1 hour 3 mornings a week and have to fill in forms on the qualities of odour, crispness, crunchiness and how smooth a paste they make after 4 chews. People who suffer with hay fever need not apply.

Research, Food and nutrition, Biscuits, Samples (Merchandising), Samples (Products), United Biscuits (Holdings) PLC

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Teenagers in love (with money)

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Gruntal and Co, New York, run week-long activity holidays for children entitled 'Money Management Courses.' In the mornings children learn about stock investment and risk award analysis, in the afternoons they play sport. The children invest $100 each in stocks of their choice, checking figures on computers. The fathers of most of the children attending are self-made men: architects, attorneys, farmers. Capitalism is presented as an honourable, powerful system.

Investments, Stock-exchange, Stock exchanges, Children, Training, Camps, Camps (Recreation)

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They meet as teenagers in Belfast. For 20 years she has visited him in an English prison

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Northern Ireland is enjoying a ceasefire, but life has not changed for Briege Norney, whose husband Paul is one of the longest-serving republican prisoners in the UK. The couple married in 1987 at Parkhurst Prison, although they first met as teenagers. He has now spent 20 years in jail, although his family claim that he was never a hard-core IRA member.

Interview, Prisoners' wives, Norney, Briege

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