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Hard Times

Calvin Trillin

December 30, 2013

the 2013 compensation of disney ceo robert iger was reduced to $34 million. —News reports

The forty million made before Has been reduced to thirty-four. At home, Bob now knows what’s in store: Economies he must explore To try to keep wolves from the door. He hears remarks he can’t ignore: They whisper, those who make much more, “Poor Iger makes but thirty-four.”

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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