Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looked more precarious than ever. The Labor Department reported that despite the exuberant stock market and mild inflation, real wages keep on falling. For the lowest-earning 10% of workers, the weekly paycheck averaged $225 last year, a 10% drop since the late '70s after inflation is taken into account. It means that more people than ever are working full time and still living below the poverty line of $15,141 for a family of four. Millions more are scraping by, just one broken refrigerator away from crisis. Says Labor Secretary Robert Reich: "If we don't take steps...
...believe the church has reached a point of diminishing returns in attempting to lure more white converts. But so long as the convention, founded in 1845 by die- hard defenders of slavery, clung to its noxious racial theology, it would be hard to evangelize among African Americans, who currently account for about 500,000 of the church's 15.5 million members. "This is very much connected to the Southern Baptists' attempts to reach out to blacks, who share with them a very strong belief in Fundamentalism," says John Hope Franklin, the distinguished black historian. Moreover, as Lincoln notes, the antislavery...
Until last week, Christine Hong, an assistant account executive at the Los Angeles ad agency Poppe Tyson, had never won anything. Then she received E-mail "signed" by Taco Bell president William C. Bell, informing her that from now until the end of October she could order one free lunch a week simply by stopping in at a participating restaurant and uttering this password: "I'd like a Grande Burrito and hold the McSour Cream...
...have finally found what appears to be a brown dwarf, a long-sought heavenly object that until now has existed only in theory. Brown dwarfs are not quite big and hot enough to ignite the nuclear-fusion reaction that would make them shine as full-fledged stars. They probably account for some of the universe's "missing" matter...
Character takes firm hold in this wondering account of fistfights and flood, car crashes, shootings, midnight departures, drinking and mulligrubbing. It's not all funny. There are a couple of childhood rapes and too many mornings of a mother hung over and useless. But Karr and her sister Lecia survive-Lecia to marry and turn Republican, Karr to be a poet (with such collections as The Devil's Tour) and to write a drop-dead reply to the question "Ma, what was it like when you were a little girl...