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Word: means (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what will the higher minimum wage really mean to the working poor? Though economists are skeptical about business's claims that the increase will lead to large numbers of lost jobs, they also question whether it will do much to improve the lot of low-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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pay Hike for the Poor | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a veteran of 20 Cambridge elections, predicted that the remaining seats would be distributed in accordance with the current first-choice vote rankings. That would mean a majority of five for the CCA, in addition to pro-tenant Independent Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. who is expected to side with the good-government group on most issues...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Duehay, Wolf Re-Elected to City Council | 11/11/1989 | See Source »

March 3-4: Playoff time, and RPI's intown. Must mean Young is due for another hattrick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Those Who Were Away... | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

...Dean Clark has come up with another approach to solve the problems of the disadvantaged and under represented people of this country, we'd all love to hear it. But in the mean time, what purpose has he served by denying us counseling to seek jobs that enable us to make our own contributions to alleviating inequity and injustice? Marilynn Sager Harvard Law School, Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Public Service Deserves More | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...Students are walking around with disks with infected Wordperfect programs," Samenfeld said. "It is an easy access point for the virus. We were successful in clearing the virus out of the lab, but that doesn't mean there aren't students who have it on their disks or on their hard drives...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, | Title: Virus Hits K-School Computers | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

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