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These are not isolated, exotic cases. Nationwide, the fraction of the work force earning wages that are inadequate to lift a family out of poverty rose from 25.7% in 1979 to 31.5% in 1987. During the '80s, the average hourly compensation of all blue-collar workers, computed in constant dollars, fell $1.68, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and those who were earning the least tended to lose the most. In what some sociologists call the "new working class" -- which is disproportionately made up of minorities and the young and female of all races -- work may be a fine ingredient...
Part of what makes any fiction fun is the inversion of expectations. Kramer, the ruling white, is the team's iconoclast, full of scorn for procedure and authority. He is expedient, intemperate, womanizing and often drunk. Zondi, the oppressed black who for reasons of race earns a modest fraction of his partner's pay, is a convent-educated conformist. By the chronological end of the series he is a dutiful husband, attentive father and slightly stodgy bourgeois citizen. Each is responding to his social position: white Kramer can afford the luxury of defiance, but black Zondi cannot...
...billion dollars? Other than through marriage or inheritance, acquiring a billion dollars or some reasonable fraction thereof, I've decided after years of envious analysis, requires some combination of five things: Talent (which includes intelligence and imagination); Energy (which includes hard work); Resources (which include cash, contacts and education); Desire (which when sufficiently extreme can include a willingness to be ruthless or criminal); and Luck (which includes dumb luck...
...they don't just videotape weddings (or birthdays or bar mitzvahs), they choreograph them. Then, back in their basement studios, they process their footage through an array of cutting-edge technology to produce video that is just as polished as the best seen on national TV -- and for a fraction of the cost...
...more than 70 such trips that Sununu has taken since April 1989 appear to have been devoted mainly to personal or political pursuits -- including ski weekends in Colorado and his home state of New Hampshire. The cost to U.S. taxpayers is more than $500,000, only a fraction of which was reimbursed by Sununu, though some trips were bankrolled by ( private corporate interests in apparent violation of federal ethics laws. On the day the restriction went into effect, Sununu took a military jet to deliver a commencement address at the University of South Carolina, a flight the White House deemed...