Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danehy added that some police officers loaf on the job. "I want 90 cents worth of work for every dollar we give them," he said...
...have to accept a job created by the Government, and put in 20 to 32 hours a week. Sample jobs that would be set up: janitorial work, road construction and office clerking. Pay would be at the prevailing minimum wage level, which is now $2.30 an hour. For every dollar made by an adult, the amount of welfare received by the household would be reduced by 500. For example, if the father in the four-member household was able to earn $2,000 a year, his family's federal payment would be reduced from...
...doing very well. They have prevented archrival Eastman Kodak, the giant of U.S. photography with sales of $5.4 billion, from grabbing as much of the market as expected in its first year in the instant-camera field.* Polaroid's 1976 sales of $950 million missed the magic billion-dollar mark by a shutter click, and its first-quarter 1977 profits jumped 33% over a year earlier. Although Kodak's long-term outlook is good, the company's first-quarter net dropped 20% because of poor sales generally. Kodak has told 1,000 employees, mostly instant-film workers...
Sources at the University Museum said they would probably charge one dollar for adults, 50 cents for children, and 25 cents for school groups from outside Cambridge...
...paths, that is, except the circular one of giving in to domination. This is a route well traveled by the prostitute, and Lynee Gore's portrayal manages to suggest the personal degradation that accompanies her submission to money. And when the characters do not give in to the Yankee dollar, other forms of domination are there to demoralize them--some rich group or figure to control these tenants' lives. The petty bourgeois landlord, played by James Young, is always present, always ready to evict those who hate him. So the question, for these tenants ultimately becomes one of self-respect...