C M Y K Nxxx,2018-10-24,A,001,Bs-4C,E2_+ Late Edition Today, partly sunny, windy, cooler, high 54. Tonight, partly cloudy, chilly, low 40. Tomorrow, abundant sunshine, brisk, chilly, high 50. Weather map appears on Page A22. VOL. CLXVIII ... No. 58,125+ © 2018 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2018 $3.00 Reality Check ERDOGAN ASSERTS For Forecasts SAUDIS ARRANGED Of Blue Wave ‘SAVAGE MURDER’ Life-Is-Good Ethos Is a Midterm Wild Card FANNING GLOBAL UPROAR By PATRICIA COHEN and SYDNEY EMBER Prince Defiantly Flaunts YARDLEY, Pa. — Sitting at her Power at Event Amid pumpkin-decorated dining room table, Kristen Donnelly ticked off Khashoggi Inquiry her top political concerns: pay eq- uity for women, gun control and anti-immigrant sentiment. (Her By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK husband of five years has a green and CARLOTTA GALL card.) ISTANBUL — President Recep As for the president? “I would Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey swept never vote for Trump,” Ms. Don- into Ankara’s wood-paneled Par- nelly declared. liament on Tuesday to level his An independent, and co-chair of most direct attack yet against the local chamber’s Women in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Business committee, Ms. Don- Salman of Saudi Arabia, accusing nelly, 35, is the kind of educated, his government of planning the affluent suburban woman whom “savage murder” and mutilation Democrats are counting on to fuel of the dissident writer Jamal a “blue wave” in November’s elec- Khashoggi. tions and sweep away the Repub- Hours later, Prince Mohammed lican majority in the House of Rep- bounded into the gilded confer- resentatives. ence hall of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Except that Ms. Donnelly plans in Riyadh to a standing ovation from scores of oil executives, to vote for Brian Fitzpatrick, the STEPHEN KALIN/REUTERS bankers and other businessmen Republican congressman who Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, center, posing for photos at a business conference in Riyadh on Tuesday. represents Pennsylvania’s closely who had risked association with contested first district, north of scandal over the killing of Mr. Philadelphia. Khashoggi for a chance to profit “He’s definitely on the moder- from the kingdom’s vast wealth. ate side,” Ms. Donnelly said, prais- “More people, more money,” the ing his support for the nuclear In Its Heyday, Sears Spread the Wealth. Companies Today Don’t. crown prince told reporters, pro- family, the police department and nouncing the event a success de- now conducted in America. Win- Not only does it reverse what spite the withdrawal of dozens of “the idea that America as a nation ner-take-some has evolved into had been an unusually broad em- is good, and that we can continue By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ Workers Lose Benefits, speakers and the pleas of many and MICHAEL CORKERY winner-take-most or -all, and in ployee stock ownership program, businessmen for him to spare to protect the American experi- many cases publicly traded com- Amazon’s decision underscores ment as it stands.” Half a century ago, a typical While Shareholders them embarrassment by calling it panies are concentrating wealth, how lower-paid employees across off. With two weeks until the elec- Sears salesman could walk out of not spreading it. Profit-sharing corporate America have been tion, Republican leaders and Pres- the store at retirement with a nest Grab the Spoils Their competing stage shows and pensions are a rarity among locked out of profit-sharing and on Tuesday were the latest salvos ident Trump are increasingly bull- egg worth well over a million in to- the rank-and-file, while top execu- stock grants. ish about Republican voters and day’s dollars, feathered with com- in an increasingly high-stakes bat- tives take home an increasing “What’s happened is that share- moderate independents rallying tle that no longer appears to leave pany stock. A warehouse worker share of the spoils. world’s richest person. holders’ interests have squeezed behind the party’s candidates either one room for retreat, pitting hired now at Amazon who stays Amazon shareholders have Amazon, which changed how out other stakeholders,” said Ar- rather than taking a chance on a against each other two American until retirement would leave with benefited more than workers, but Americans shop much as Sears thur C. Martinez, who ran Sears Democratic challenger or a Dem- allies who have each aspired to be a fraction of that. Sears, in its heyday, tried to serve did in its prime, does not disclose during the 1990s and was credited ocratic-controlled House. A the leader of their region. Much as Sears has declined in both. what percentage of its stock is with a turnaround. “The mantra is healthy economy, Justice Brett M. In Washington, President the intervening decades, so has The company earmarked 10 owned by employees. shareholders above all else.” Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight the willingness of corporate Trump made his strongest criti- percent of pretax earnings for a But this month, Amazon Decades ago, he said, “the peo- cism yet of his Saudi ally. He pro- and, most recently, Mr. Trump’s America to share the rewards of retirement plan for full-time em- stopped giving stock to hundreds ple who produced or sold the prod- nounced the latest official Saudi ominous warnings and baseless success. Shareholders now come ployees and by the 1950s, the of thousands of employees, even uct were more central than the account of Mr. Khashoggi’s disap- charges about a migrant caravan first and employees have been workers owned a quarter of Sears. as it lifted its minimum hourly people in the corporate suite. pearance — that he was strangled threatening the border have ener- pushed to the back of the line. By contrast, one man at Amazon, wage to $15. While the raise gar- There was a different mind-set to death by accident during an at- gized supporters at rallies and This shift is broader than a sin- the founder and chief executive nered headlines, the move to curb candidate forums. and it’s linked to the larger issue of tempt to persuade him to come gle company’s culture, reflecting Jeff Bezos, owns 16 percent of the stock awards may ultimately be income inequality.” home — “the worst cover-up Continued on Page A21 deep changes in how business is company and is ranked as the more significant. Not only was Sears’s program ever.” He had deemed it “credible” generous, it was also remarkably just a few days before. egalitarian. Contributions were In its first punitive response in based on years of service, not the three weeks since the disap- 201 men lost jobs or major roles 124 replacements 54 women 70 men Pioneer of Court rank, and the longest-serving pearance, the administration also workers received nearly $3 for ev- said it would revoke the visas of 21 ery dollar they contributed. The Saudis suspected of killing Mr. Calls for Comity company phased out the profit- Khashoggi, a Virginia resident sharing plan beginning in the and Washington Post columnist. In Face of Illness 1970s. This month, after years of Continued on Page A9 lackluster attempts at revival, the retailer filed for bankruptcy pro- By ADAM LIPTAK tection. CONFLICTED Trying to make deals Sears was hardly alone in cor- WASHINGTON — The first and lie low at an awkward “Davos woman to serve on the Supreme Continued on Page A17 in the Desert.” PAGE A9 Court was just 75, young by its standards, and still sharp and vig- orous when she left. But she gave up the job she loved, along with extraordinary power, to guide and Dead and Passed By for Days: comfort her husband, who was struggling with Alzheimer’s dis- A Story of Despair in New York ease. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor handled her new role with grit and By MICHAEL WILSON good humor, even when her hus- A neighbor walking his dog in band had a romance with another A year after #MeToo, an analysis by The New York Times takes stock of the movement’s impact. woman in the assisted-living cen- the East Village saw the man one ter where he spent his days. She night, sitting motionless behind would visit the new couple while the wheel inside a parked car. Two they held hands on a porch swing, days later, he was still there. The beaming with relief to see her hus- How #MeToo Realigned the Corridors of Power windows were up, the engine off band of 55 years at peace. He died — this during an August heat in 2009, three years after her re- been replaced were succeeded by wave. The neighbor called 911. Soon the block of East 12th tirement. This article is by Audrey Carlsen, women. When Prominent Men Street was busy with police offi- On Tuesday, Justice O’Connor Maya Salam and Claire Cain Miller. In the year preceding the Wein- announced her own reckoning Fell, Women Often stein report, by contrast, fewer cers and their bosses, the car with the disease that had afflicted They had often gotten away than 30 high-profile people made roped off with yellow tape. There her husband, John J. O’Connor III. with it for years, and for those Stepped Up the news for resigning or being were no signs of foul play. A team Geoffrey Weglarz drank a vial “Some time ago,” she wrote in a they harassed, it seemed as if the fired after public accusations of from the Office of Chief Medical of poison in his parked car.