Word: equal
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Elsewhere in the Ivy League, Yale admitted 34 percent of its 1488 applicants--roughly equal to the number in last year's pool--despite the paralyzing clerical and technical workers' strike it suffered this fall. Officials in New Haven said they deferred just under to percent and rejected the same number...
Jewett said that Southern applicants to Harvard were stronger this year than in years past. He added that the College had admitted 11 Mexican Americans, higher than last year, and 22 Blacks, roughly equal to last year's total despite the increase in all applicants...
COMPARABLE worth advocates are shouting louder than ever. Strikers at Yale created a national stir last month by demanding that the government and the university recognize their claim to equal pay for work which, by some standard yet undeveloped, would be judged similar. Soon-to-be Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry has wholeheartedly endorsed the movement toward national legislation requiring businesses to institute comparable worth pay scales. The concept sounds good, but then so did Communism...
...seems, however, that very few proponents of comparable worth pay scales, as represented by the Yale strikers (now back at work at least temporarily), really care about the future well-being of business. Rather, they are primarily concerned with sex and race discrimination and believe that legislation requiring equal pay for comparable work will resolve that dilemma. But sex and race are only a small piece of the pie when it comes to determining wages; employers must also consider skill, performance, supply and demand. To ignore the market values on labor would be fallacious; it would compromise our entire economic...
...longer determine the value of their employees given its budget, then it will automate at the employees' expense. For the value of many workers to their company lies in how much the company is forced to spend on wages. If the government demands that forklift drivers receive pay equal to truck drivers, it may save money to automate the warehouse. If secretaries demand more than their worth in relation to business needs, why not computerize secretarial work? Pushing for comparable worth on a national level only encourages dehumanization and diminished opportunity...