Word: menials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes there are unpleasant surprises. It isn't always easy to find work in Cambridge, even for alumni willing to settle for menial jobs. Unemployment in Massachusetts is now hovering between 11 and 12 per cent and in Cambridge, it is even higher: 12.8 per cent, compared to 11.4, for example, in the rest of the Boston metropolitan area. Harvard graduates can't collect unemployment compensation unless they have held a local job, their employer contributed to the state unemployment insurance fund, and they did not quit but were fired. Even then, the amount of unemployment money will probably...
Shuster, who had poor eyesight, could only get menial jobs; Siegel became a clerk-typist. Superman continued to maintain law and order in Metropolis and over the years made a fortune for others. Superman books, TV and radio shows have earned tens of millions of dollars. The first comic book starring Superman currently sells for $3,000. Shuster and Siegel have repeatedly brought suit to share Superman's millions-but without success. Last spring they simply asked Warner Communications, Inc. (which now owns the copyright) to recognize their moral right to some of the profits. Last week Warner agreed...
...society, a position then as now connected to one's sex, race and "background." Boys went fishing or hunting; girls played "house" and not incidentally learned to cook. The children of slaves learned to wait on other (white) children, as well as assist their parents in various menial tasks. Children of the rich were given dancing lessons, learned how to eat, dress, walk, talk in the proper way and, not least, how to give orders and receive the lavish attention and regard of others. There were sleigh riding and ice skating in the Northern colonies, and in the South...
...Menial Jobs. Some of the refugees have become so lonely for Vietnamese company that they have sought to return to the camps. Others, especially those who enjoyed upper-class status in Viet Nam, have been unwilling to take menial jobs. A senior official of a volunteer agency reports that several refugees refused a position as night clerk in a hotel in Buffalo, partly because of the job's nature and partly because of the city's frigid winters. Says the official: "Not all of these people realize that, like other refugee groups in our history, they must start...
...special privileges" which go only to a few. Malay youth are never called up to serve in the armed forces, for example--a supposedly compulsory duty--and hence are denied advantages in employment and other privileges which go to national servicemen. They perform many of the society's more menial functions and are to be found in the ranks of gardeners, chauffeurs, office peons and other low-paid jobs...