Word: give
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the White House joined with congressional Democrats to give a raise to those at the bottom of the scale. Starting next April, the lowest- paid workers will receive $3.80 an hour, to be followed by a raise to $4.25 a year later. That represents a concession by the President, who wanted the increase phased in over three years. But congressional Democrats also gave ground by agreeing to an idea they had fiercely resisted in the past, a so- called training wage for teenage workers. The training wage, which can be paid to a worker only during his first...
...bloodshed and are keeping order. What happened in Georgia was a single incident. A painful event. But it did not happen at the initiative of the military. Our government learned a lesson: our armed forces do not participate in such events now, and local governments have no right to give them orders...
...wonder Hall sometimes feels besieged. "My manager told me not to be angry, but I am," he says. "I give 110%. I resent the fact that ((for some white critics)) I have to be whiter to be a star. And then there are the jabs from my own people, the implication that I have to be unfair to whites to make + blacks happy. I am angry. I'm on a tightrope, and people are punching me from every direction...
MICHAEL BOLTON: SOUL PROVIDER (Columbia). Singer-songwriter Bolton, a white rhythm-and-bluesman from New Haven, Conn., finally hits his stride here. High point: Georgia on My Mind, on which his uncanny four-octave range and gut- wrenching phrasing give Ray Charles a serious run for the money...
Krenz seems determined to keep that, at least, true. He fired five Politburo members and begged those who "think about emigrating" to give him a chance. "Put trust in our policy of renewal," advised Krenz, promising a "far- reaching program" to change the constitution, the economy and the education system. Yet he defined perestroika merely as something to "make socialism more attractive." For him, Soviet-style reform seemed not so much a welcome formula for change as a last-ditch effort to prop up the East German system before the rift between the party and society grows too wide...