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Q: Can you use isthmus in a sentence? A: Isthmus be my lucky day. Oh Luck, where is thy sting? Just like Brophy in High Anxiety , I run around all day yelling, "I got it! I got it! I got it! ... I ain't got it." Chrysler workers got the lucky sting today... DETROIT - Chrysler Group will offer all 49,600 hourly workers in the U.S. up to $100,000 to leave the company as part of a recovery plan announced earlier this month. The company, which lost $1.475 billion in 2006 and said it expects losses to continue through 2007, said on Feb. 14 it intends to shed 13,000 jobs, including 11,000 hourly positions and 2,000 salaried, as it tries to further shrink itself to match reduced demand for its products. That's interesting. Every worker gets up to $100,000. Great. Meanwhile, the CEO and his corner-office pals who were chiefly responsible for the bad product decisions and shabby marketing will probably get severances that are two hundred times that much. When times are go...