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...budget. Says City Councilman Ernani Bernardi, who makes only $43,923 a year: "It's a vicious cycle. It has to stop." According to him, the bloated wage scale results from a lack of fiscal restraint by the council and an arcane "prevailing wage clause" in the city charter, dating from 1925. In practice, the prevailing wage clause, requiring the city to pay its employees salaries at least equal to comparable jobs in the private sector, has become the rock-bottom minimum from which wage demands spiral upward...
...student interest of a different form comes from College officials, some of whom sit on the HSA board. Partly because HSA provides important opportunities for employment for students who need help financing their education an intention contained in the original HSA charter the College keeps a proprietary eye on the corporation to "minimize the financial risk" of it, says Archie C. Epps III, dean of students and an ex office board member...
...seemed perfectly fitting that he hailed from Normal, Ill. Even Normal Scouts, though, are rather more cosmopolitan than their earliest predecessors were in 1912. In addition to old standbys like rubbing two sticks together, today's Scouts must study things like the fine points of the U.N. Charter. At the ceremony, Holsinger, despite having pledged to uphold the Scout motto, seemed unprepared for a telephone call from the genial Old Scout himself, Ronald Reagan, Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America. Gasped Holsinger: "I thought I was going to faint...
After a year in the Antarctic, during which they performed scientific experiments for various organizations and ran a charter boat service to the South Pacific (several team members, including Burton, also got married), Transglobe proceeded by ship toward its next destination, the North Pole. Fiennes and Burton navigated the Yukon River by motorized rubber raft, sailed 3,000 miles along the Northwest Passage in the whaler and camped for the four-month Arctic night at Ellesmere Island. They reached the North Pole by snowmobile just before midnight last April 10 and celebrated with well-chilled champagne and a chocolate Easter...
...Quakers, brimming with revolutionary optimism, began the experiment in a renovated downtown jail. They were bent on "such degrees and modes of punishment . . . as may . . . become the means of restoring our fellow creatures to virtue and happiness." No other country was so seduced for so long by that ambitious charter. The language, ever malleable, conformed to the ideal: when a monkish salvation was expected of inmates, prisons became penitentiaries, then reformatories, correctional centers and rehabilitation facilities. Those official euphemisms are still used, but they are vestiges, drained of that first noble zeal...