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...redistribution is not worth any material benefit may come out of that exchange—even a higher wage for already poorly paid workers.The natural reply of living-wage advocates might be that, even though all members of the community are entitled to the same level of respect, the bottommost members require a baseline level of monetary worth, because their poverty results from arbitrary factors beyond their control. That our society chooses to monetarily reward certain talents (intelligence, for example) over others is inherently arbitrary. It is insignificant, at least from a moral perspective, that certain people are born with...

Author: By Vivek G. Ramaswamy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Uncounted Costs of a Living Wage | 10/12/2005 | See Source »

...insists on being called, knows the meaning of entitlement. He swore at me that there would be no peace unless I ceded him complete control of the mantle and three out of five of my dresser drawers. When I gave him the top two and bottommost drawers, he stormed away muttering about the viability of a non-contiguous arrangement...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Arafat Floats In | 9/17/2003 | See Source »

...bottommost student room, would probably consider itself the most grounded...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Room by Room: The Story of One Entryway | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Word in a recent Clinton Freudian slip 4 Plugging away 5 A network that has agreed to hire more minorities 6 Hope-Crosby destination 7 "__ Bill" Bradley 8 Nation tightening controls on the Net 9 Marked with streaks 10 Fed. that dissolved in 1991 12 Med. school course 17 Bottommost 19 Osama bin __ (possible link to suspected Algerian terrorists) 21 Interneuron has sued A.H.P. over __/phen 22 Debunked mentalist Geller 24 TV's Jennings 27 Katmandu tongue 29 Baseballer at State of the Union 33 Clinton would require a photo ID to purchase one 34 __ Dis (village that may become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Feb. 14, 2000 | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

Meanwhile, back on the screen of the Center Theatre on the very bottommost bit of Washington Street, Elvis continuing to shrink and sing. While, from the screen's bottom left, shots of the International's mammoth kitchens. Great, grotesque hunks of institutional meat. Barrels of dough. Bread for the circus. And, over on Elvis' right, Brobdingnagian close-ups of the office staff, the maids, bellboys, waitresses, showgirls and hawkers, pr men. Tourists. But no, not tourists. Not in Vegas. And, the center of it all, Elvis, jes keeps on singin'. Surround him, cameras roll up and down through the labyrinthic...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Amerikultcha And Elvis Went Into The Desert... | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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