Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are dirty jobs, but someone has to do them: messenger, storeroom clerk, cook in a fast-food restaurant. The work requires few skills, pays little and offers almost no chance for advancement. Minimum-wage jobs. In the 1980s earning a living at minimal pay is more difficult than ever. During the inflationary spiral of the late '70s, the minimum wage was increased almost yearly, but since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the standard has been frozen at $3.35 an hour. Not since World War II has it gone unchanged for so long...
Loyal readers of such Fisher classics as How to Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me, Consider the Oyster and With Bold Knife and Fork are familiar with her life, which includes three marriages and two daughters. Born in Michigan, she was raised in Whittier, Calif., where her father Rex Kennedy was a newspaper editor and publisher. "I am a fifth-generation writer," she says with pride, "even though now I dictate into a cassette. It's awful...
...booklet has been distributed to major world leaders, including President Reagan, and Baha'is on campus are trying to arrange a meeting to present it to Harvard President Derek C. Bok, Cook says...
Although public awareness of the faith is not great, Cook says he feels people on campus react positively to Baha'i ideas. "I think our ideas are of such a nature that they don't really conflict with anyone's viewpoints enough to cause hostility," he says...
...only thing to keep me company, so I'd listen to the radio. Thank God for transistor radios! I also learned how to knit, things I wasn't particularly attracted to before. Suddenly I became such a homebody, knitting while listening to soap operas. Then trying to cook. It was really a very boring existence. If I hadn't had my religion and made my vows to stick with this man for better or worse, maybe I would have had second thoughts...