Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 six months on the job, will be $3.23, rising...
Perry led the team in rushing for the second straight week, but senior split end Mark Bianchi picked up ample ground as well. Bianchi carried the ball on a reverse four times, a play that consistently baffled the Bruin defenders to the tune of 42 yards...
...third Ivy back ever to amass 3000 career yards rushing. Keys leads the nation in all-purpose yardage and is a leading candidate for the top 1-AA player in the country. Princeton, however, shut down the mobile senior last week, limiting him to just 65 yards on the ground. The Tigers dominated the Quakers, thrashing them...
...addition to slamming the door on the Penn ground attack, Princeton also gunned down Air Quaker. Quarterback Malcolm Glover, who leads the Ivies with 240 yards per game passing, was ineffective against the raging Princeton defense, throwing for only 157 yards...
...laced his speech with references to traditional Democratic Party powerhouses, tying his ground-breaking campaign firmly to the Democratic establishment. He thanked New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and current Mayor Edward I. Koch--three men he said helped greatly in the campaign...