Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is ample bad news, too. Working women are still disproportionately herded into so-called pink-collar jobs-teaching, clerical and retail sales work. The median salary for American women last year was only 60% that of American men. Indeed, 94.7% of those earning $15,000 or more in the U.S. are male. Women still do not get equal pay for equal work: Female high school teachers earn only 81% as much as their male peers, and female scientists receive 76% as much. Of the 301 people appointed to major jobs by President Carter, only 13% are women. There...
Christmas has come a little early for 389 members of the White House staff-all those, in fact, who earn less than $47,500. Santa Carter has boosted their pay by 7.05%, effective Oct. 9. While many of the staffers no doubt deserved a merit raise, the blanket increase-to a top of $47,500 for some people-lifted Washington eyebrows. Quite a few who got the increases had held modest to middling jobs before joining the White House staff, made fractions of their current pay, and were hired less for their professional ability than for the political help they...
...always, will come too late to satisfy rising black aspirations. Last month urban blacks were authorized to hold 42 more kinds of jobs than before?including those of auctioneer, druggist, chiropractor and boardinghouse keeper. Officially, pay scales for black and white workers are the same; in practice, blacks earn far less than whites who hold the same jobs. A fortnight ago the government announced its intention to modify slightly the hated pass laws; henceforth blacks will be allowed to carry "travel documents" rather than the present identity books...
...intervening years the subject of his satire-pro football's Lombardi era, with all its dark Nixonian overtones-has lost some of its edge. Adapter Bernstein and Director Ritchie have found a contemporary lunacy with the same rich possibilities in the human-potential movement, and for that they earn the gratitude of right thinkers everywhere. The Kilgore Rangerettes really ought to spell out their names between halves of the Super Bowl...
...almost certain that there will be many more of these unauthorized human beings entering the United States in the coming years. Economic conditions in Mexico are so wretched that the United States looks like the promised land in comparison. The vast majority of Mexico's 63 million people earn less than $20 a month; devaluation of the peso has brought on 30 per cent inflation and "effectively halved the incomes of those fortunate enough to hold jobs," according to The El Paso Times. And there seems to be no prospect of a lessening of these pressure, as experts predict that...