Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over equal pay in San Jose...
...week-old strike of municipal workers in San Jose, Calif, (pop. 650,000), is not hamstringing the city. The money involved is relatively meager, less than a baseball star or network-news anchorman can make in a year. But the dispute is an important one. At issue: equal pay for comparable work, especially for women in low-salary, female-dominated fields...
Says Mayor Janet Gray Hayes: "This is the civil rights issue of the '80s." That it is being argued in San Jose is ironic: Hayes heads a mostly female city council and has for years touted her city as "the feminist capital of the world...
...Jose Garcia...
...this year? The top seed will be Jose Luis Clerc. You never heard of him? A relative unknown, despite his ninth-place world ranking. Clerc's obscurity symbolizes the problems haunting the only world-class tennis tournament that can be reached on the Green Line. Last year he beat one James Scott Connors, whom the tournament committee had paid in the neighborhood of $50,000 just to show up and help sell tickets. With Connors out of the lineup early, sales slumped and the tournament ended up just breaking even. Which, considering the huge amounts of money it had lost...