Word: earnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What has hit home the most for me was befriending Chelie, a 15-year-old girl who lives in my boarding house. She left school a few years ago to earn money for her family and is up at dawn each day doing domestic chores until late in the evening. As a Harvard student, I complain about excessive homework, the lack of social life at school and what was served in the dining hall for dinner. The disparity between livelihoods is just so unbelievably vast. Who's the adult here? And this week, with this pained awareness of the grave...
...This is a serious matter of real-life people needing to earn decent wages so they can live in this community," he said...
...their Olympic gold medal in Sydney next summer. They are eager to get a pro league started, perhaps with some of the profits this tournament will have generated quite unexpectedly. And there is the matter of the players' contract with U.S. Soccer, which expires soon. Some team players earn less than $30,000--coffee money for a male professional. Says Steinbrecher, sounding like a negotiator: "We can't afford to pay them what we think they're worth." He may just have to try a little harder. Welcome to the big time, ladies...
Many high-tech firms contend that workers like flexible arrangements. They sometimes earn better wages than their full-time peers and can often buy a package of benefits from their agency. With their services in great demand, the argument goes, permatemps can job-hop at will and learn skills at each stop. There's no denying that many free agents prefer it that way; yet there are many more who would jump at the offer of a full-time...
...despite its mannerisms and one of those where-are-the-cops-when-you- need-them car chases through downtown Washington, Arlington Road comes to a conclusion as lugubrious as it is surprising. It really doesn't earn its messy, crudely ironic ending, however. The ability of terrorism to rend cruelly the vulnerable skin of our civility is its most commonly remarked-upon quality. But that does not mean it is as pervasive, intricately organized and irresistible as this breathlessly striving movie makes...