Word: hr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every kid has Nathan's seemingly innate ability to budget his time. Many others are overwhelmed by the intense pressure, and that is when parents need to step in. Caitlin Nish, 17, of Westfield, N.J., baby-sits 2 hr. every day, tutors three students in math 3 to 6 hr. a week, plays sports, belongs to clubs and edits an award-winning high school newspaper. She does homework for 6 hr. till 1:30 a.m. "Sometimes I am about to break into tears," she says. "Just having my mother put her arm around me and say that...
...senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Fort Lee, N.J., took advantage of the firm's flextime policy because she wanted to pursue an outside interest--becoming an emergency medical technician with a volunteer ambulance corps. In September she took a 40% pay cut and went from a 55-hr. workweek to a 24-hr. workweek at the consulting firm. She spends the rest of the week in training to become an EMT. She has an understanding with the company that she can go back to work full time when, and if, she wants...
...house illegal immigrants from China, men and women smuggled in to work in the teeming sweatshops and restaurants of New York City's many Chinatowns. "Here we live like pigs and eat like dogs," says Son Li, 66, who arrived four years ago and works 12-hr. shifts seven days a week as a clothes hanger in a sweatshop on Lafayette Street, a few blocks away from the Bowery barracks. He says he makes about $1 an hour, when his employer pays. He has paid dearly for the privilege of working in America...
...find a better life. She paid gangsters to get out of China three years ago to join her husband, who had illegally entered the U.S. in 1991. She paid the snakeheads money her husband had borrowed and sent over. Almost immediately after reaching New York, she began working 17-hr. days, seven days a week, at a local garment factory. But because she was new and the factory paid piece rate, she made only $1 an hour. "Sometimes we had nothing for ourselves. I made less than $100 a week." She and her husband made so little money they couldn...
Accommodations: Twice daily maid service, 24-hr. room service, closet safe, fully-stocked mini-bar (a lush's delight), marble bath, laundry service, plush terry cloth robes...