Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, a homeowner may pay the main contractor on a remodeling job $15 an hour for a carpenter whose wages are $6 05 an hour. The difference is made up by fringe benefits, payments to subcontractors-and a 50% to 60% markup that covers the contractor's overhead and profits. In addition, contractors usually buy pipe, lumber and other materials at discounts, but charge the homeowner the standard price plus "delivery costs." The markup over the contractor's price ranges from at least 10% in Chicago to 30% in Miami...
...their own contractors, buying materials at the contractor's discount and employing moonlighting carpenters and electricians. The moonlighters generally charge only their actual wage rate, plus perhaps a dollar an hour. But few homeowners are able to estimate the quantity, sizes and types of materials that a job may require; even fewer know enough to supervise and coordinate the work of the craftsmen. It would take an expert to tell the good workmen from the many others who produce most of the grumbling about warping walls, quick-cracking concrete and misconnected electric lines. A homeowner can weed...
...have the funds to remodel their buildings, hire 100 more doctors or raise the wages of attendants above the minimum level. It also becomes evident that the staff does not sit back and accept these limitations. For example, there is a large work program, where patients can get jobs ranging from housekeeping to masonry to work in a large greenhouse. The hospital saves a lot of money this way; the pay is low, but for a patient living in the hospital, five dollars a week is plenty of spending money. Furthermore, having a job within the hospital...
...hear questions and answers them with words instead of a nod. He will be moving out of the hospital into a half-way house. And there's the woman who never moved into our ward, probably because it might have meant that she would try again to get a job, to leave the hospital's security. Her volunteer happened to be one of the people who doesn't let himself give up on people; her "progress" wasn't a concrete thing to be measured, and yet the strength of their friendship and the degree to which she trusted him affirms...
...comic ability was aided by a ludicruous eighteen-inch (one presumes, fake) erection, but he would have cut a convincingly ridiculous figure anyway. Cinesias, as a deprived husband, must be a pathetic combination of exasperation, desperation, fury, and, of course, horny as hell. John Pieters does a very convincing job; he brought back those golden high-school days of drive-in movies and cramps in the groin. And after the reconciliation, with Myrrhina chasing him, he gives a similarly convincing impression of exhaustion. Judith Wells' Myrrhina is a bit colorless at first, but in the scene where she is commanded...