Word: junes
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Congressional Democrats and their labor allies had repeatedly been thwarted in their attempts to legislate a higher minimum. Just last June, Bush vetoed an increase to $4.55 an hour. He was responding to arguments from business that a higher minimum would force 200,000 workers to lose their jobs. The logjam broke two weeks ago, however, when AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland suggested a compromise plan to the White House...
Kelly Cutlip was driving along a Los Angeles freeway in June 1988 when a speeding Toyota with a drug-dazed 22-year-old woman at the wheel traversed crazily five traffic lanes, crashed broadside into his pickup and gave him the ride of his life. Cutlip, 36, a marble mason from nearby Irvine, found himself strapped upside down as the truck skidded on its roof at 60 m.p.h., sparks flying past his head like an acetylene shower in a metal shop. "That's it," he announced to his wife that night. "That's the clincher...
...around. Consumer finance representative Terry Maxwell, 35, and her husband John, 33, a wine-company salesman, brought their year-old child to Seattle from Orange County just five months ago. Recalls Terry: "We came here to try to live a simple life on one income. I wanted to be June Cleaver; you know, 'Honey, I'm ho-ome!' " But they soon became disillusioned by the surprisingly high cost of living -- including what they call "sneak taxes" on housing, autos and services -- and convinced that opportunity knocks louder back in Southern California. "I'd love to take our house and lake...
...last direct talks between the Sandinistas and Contras broke down in June 1988. They agreed to a 90-day cease-fire during that session, in March, and Nicaragua had extended it on a monthly basis, with tacit agreement from the Contras...
...Commencement address to alumni this June, President Derek C. Bok described a Faustian nightmare in which he sold off the University piece by piece to raise money for the endowment...