Search Details

Word: a-day (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...work for a minimum wage. What do they want? This is the recession." In reply, some residents argue that a minimum-wage job paying less than $7,000 a year is not much better than what they have at Tent City. Says Richard Aldridge, a former $250-a-day diesel mechanic: "I can't support a wife and kids on $3.35 an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Success Spoil Tent City? | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...undercover drug buys. Watson would pretend to be a neophyte dealer eager to make a few extra bucks by selling to friends. Often the sales took place in the middle of the night. Watson kept working his regular 8-hr, patrol shift as well as his 4-hr.-a-day outside job as a security guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A True Prince off the City | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...heir at 9:03 p.m., June 21. Yet, the arrival of the Princeling, who is in line to be the 42nd monarch since the Norman conquest, also had some marked differences. He was not born in the dim fastnesses of a palace, screened by courtiers, but in a $218-a-day, 12-ft. by 12-ft. white room, with one rather shabby armchair, at London's St. Mary's Hospital. Both parents had taken lessons in natural childbirth, and his father was in the room all through his mother's six hours of labor.* "I am, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Rejoice! A Prince Is Born | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...Edith," 24, a registered nurse, had a three-gram, $300-a-day habit. She went on binges, took coke intravenously and started mixing it with such drugs as heroin, morphine and Demerol. "The highs were terrific," she says, "but the lows outweighed them by a mile." When she signed a contract with the Denver clinic, she agreed to write two letters: one to her parents, confessing her dependence on cocaine and asking that they no longer support her; the other to the state board of nursing, admitting her habit and turning in her license. The letters were to remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kicking Cocaine | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...lower court will now assess damages against Nixon and two codefendants, former Attorney General John Mitchell and White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. The court will also decide if Kissinger is liable. If Halperin, his wife and three sons are found to be eligible for the $100-a-day damages from each defendant, as specified by law, the family could collect more than $1 million. And it might not end there. Nixon faces similar suits from New York Times Reporter Hedrick Smith and former Kissinger Staffer Anthony Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collect Call | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next