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...Everything China produces, with the possible exception of textiles, is pure junk. All those "goodwill" gifts offered by U.S. credit-card companies are worthless. TIME sent me a made-in-China radio set as an award for being on time with my renewal. The radio lasted all of one hour-a screeching box that ended up on the junk pile. Americans are buying substandard products and sustaining China's economy. Future generations will condemn us for this. Paul Borstnik, Cleveland...
...KUALA LUMPUR: Aerohawk Lift your love up where it belongs: half a kilometer above in letters 2 m tall. Aerohawk will play cupid for $1,300 an hour-a bargain, considering it's the only aerial advertiser in the country...
When Bea, married to a printer and the mother of two, returned to work as a data processor, she was offered $2 an hour-a beginner's wage. That was what she had been making four years before. For non-college-educated women, Bea's predicament is not uncommon. According to Louise Kapp Howe, the odds are overwhelming that what such women do is vastly undervalued. To assemble her disquieting portrait of the work life of the average woman, Howe interviewed scores of women, met with unions and management and even took a job as a sales clerk...
...basic analyses of statutes and precedents in question, draw up briefs, develop strategy or seek grounds for appeal. It claims to be competent in most legal specialties, from admiralty law to zoning. Relying solely on old-fashioned search and analysis, not computers, the Group charges its customers $17.50 an hour-a bargain compared with the average $40 that individual lawyers routinely charge for their own time. The difference can mean substantial savings for the client...
...week McGovern concentrated on courting labor and the party regulars. After Meany's disavowal of the ticket, the candidate flew to Washington in order to vote in the Senate in favor of raising the minimum wage from $1.60 to $2.20 an hour-a bill opposed by the Administration, which wants to raise the minimum wage to $2.00. As it happened, McGovern's vote was crucial on one roll call, when an Administration measure was defeated...