Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wage workers. Only about 4 million of the nation's 60 million hourly workers make the minimum wage or less, about 40% of them teenagers. The $6,968 earned annually by a full-time minimum-wage employee is $2,467 less than the federal poverty line for a family of three. Even when the new raise goes fully into effect, such employees will earn only $8,840 a year. But only a handful of minimum-wage earners are the sole supports of their families. Moreover, many live in households that receive such Government assistance as food stamps, rent subsidies...
...Mount Dora, Fla., police department. Ten states have certified LETN as a vehicle for earning in-service training credits for promotion. The network's original programming totals two hours each day and is replayed continuously, allowing cops to wedge in their viewing during off-hours. The story line is unabashedly pro-police. "We make no apologies for it," says news director Larry Estepa. "Police are getting beaten over the head enough...
...afternoon, an earthquake strikes San Francisco. But the only tremor felt by ) the crowd filing into a Paramount sound stage 350 miles to the south is one of anticipation. Two women from New Orleans are congratulating themselves on getting into the show twice in three days (they stood in line for tickets at 7 a.m.). A couple of teenage guys from Orange County are making time with two girls they met in line. A twentyish blond from Los Angeles sings the praises of the young comic she is waiting to see: "He's young, he's hip, he's personable...
...guests, too, Hall often drops the reserve that talk hosts are supposed to maintain. Impulsive, sometimes off-color remarks frequently slip out. When actress Sally Kirkland told Hall she thought he was wonderful, he replied, "I can tell -- your nipples are hard." (Even Hall admits that one crossed the line.) An interview with filmmaker Spike Lee last June turned into a testy debate over remarks Lee had made criticizing Eddie Murphy for not helping blacks get more top jobs in Hollywood. "It takes time," said Hall, springing to his friend's defense. "And the change doesn't occur any quicker...
...scary," he muses, glancing at the rock video playing silently on the TV screen overhead. "Someday I'll be the punch line...