Word: menials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interns of the world have had enough. They may work for little or no pay, they may do the most menial tasks and they may be content to have their efforts go unrecognized, but they will not be made fun of on national television! Or at least one of them won't. Carrie Photsios, a former intern at the Justice Department, is suing JAY LENO over a joke he made using a photo of her standing next to President Clinton. The picture appeared in a recruitment brochure for Albion College. Leno remarked that the literature mentioned opportunities for "hands...
...rejected. All over America and the world, 17-and 18-year-olds have received thin envelopes informing them they weren't quite good enough for Harvard. Here, meanwhile, 19-year-olds have been told they weren't quite good enough for that unpaid internship in Congress or that menial job at Newsweek. Twenty-year-olds have been told they weren't quite good enough for that thesis grant or prestigious fellowship. And 21-year-olds by the dozen have been told they weren't quite good enough for Yale Law or johns Hopkins Med., for that job at McKinsey...
...personal life was far more difficult to balance. Luce had grown up in a kind of genteel poverty--a scholarship student working at menial jobs and pinching pennies among boys and young men of great wealth. Once he had a fortune, he lived in high style. He bought or built great houses, collected art, stayed only in the best suites in the best hotels. In 1935 he divorced his wife of 12 years (and the mother of his two sons) to marry one of the most glamorous women in America--the already acclaimed editor and playwright, later Congresswoman and ambassador...
...changed to Arthur) Fellig in 1899, Weegee was the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He dropped out of high school, then moved out of his parents' Lower East Side apartment in New York City while still in his teens, spending some time homeless, scuttling through public parks, shelters and menial jobs, all the while hoping for regular work in a photo studio--an ambition he picked up while working as an assistant to an itinerant street photographer. Depending on which story you believe, his nickname was either a smudged version of squeegee--one of his first jobs as a darkroom...
Allred argued that "without an education," Ocon would have been "limited to only menial jobs," which would undoubtedly affect the quality of care she could give to her child...