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...respect accorded them by their bosses, they find the wages inadequate to support one person, much less a family. Rick Laviak, 16, who has worked at a suburban San Diego outlet for more than a year, enjoys his job but thinks his $3.60-an-hour wage is meager considering that he gets no food discount and is expected to act as a teacher for new employees. Says he: "They want me to be a crew trainer without the pay." Partly for that reason, turnover among hourly workers at McDonald's outlets is high, sometimes nearly 100% a year...
...totally in love" and on their honeymoon; if Bing's court-appointed protectors are to be believed, Bing, a widower and childless, is being victimized by a mentally confused woman. Whatever the legal resolution may be, the beach tableau of this forlorn couple in their palm- fringed haven, with meager funds and not many friends, seemed ineffably...
...issue of whether welfare in fact encourages illegitimate births has been hotly debated. Most studies show there is no direct causal relationship. But the AFDC program, by its very nature, inevitably provides some economic incentives for the creation of single-parent families. It offers a steady (though meager) income to young women if they decide to have children they cannot support. It may encourage irresponsible men to father children without worrying how to provide for them. And it can produce a situation where a father with a low-paying job may feel forced to leave home so that his children...
...above paragraphs suggest some of the dynamics of student political demonstrations. It is up to sincere citizens in other countries to sift the meager news from China and push further in the effort to match in the thinking of us outsiders the sophistication that infuses Chinese politics. The first rule is, don't rely on "experts...
...Soviet hope that a countryside depleted of its population will be a meager ground for the resistance. A recent United Nations' report describes the war as genocide. At least 500,000 Afghans, and 20,000 Soviet soldiers, have died in the war since the Soviet invasion...