Word: minimum
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British women have taken a rather relaxed approach to feminism, with a minimum of confrontation. Nevertheless, a bill guaranteeing women equal pay for equal work went into effect at year's end. And no one has made a better case for the competence of women than Margaret Thatcher, the Tory Party leader, who happens to be cool to feminism...
...annual income would be a humiliation that no comparable orchestra has yet had to accept. Worse, recent contract settlements in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., gained musicians pay raises of $95 over three years, although the first two were achieved only after costly strikes. The current weekly minimum salary for Met musicians is $385, about the same as at the New York Philharmonic. But with the proposed 44-week year, a Met player would make $3,000 less a year...
...shut down the airline on Sept. 6 after President L.B. ("Bud") Maytag rejected their wage and work-rules demands. National and the Air Line Pilots Association, which negotiates on the national level for the flight attendants, reached an agreement in October calling for a $114 rise in the monthly minimum salary, to $750-an 18% increase...
...TORTUGA by Peter Matthiessen. With much dialogue and a minimum of description, nine flawed and simple men hunt turtles in the southwest Caribbean and become actors in an elemental drama...
...just as expensive. The mature males who drive open-cockpit racers, production vehicles and jerry-rigged "Baja bugs" at insane speeds over camel-backed "whoopdedoos" spend a minimum of $10,000 on their rigs. The cash prizes for most races are about $2,000. In Laughlin, a rest-stop community of 100 residents and three casinos tucked away in Nevada's desolate southern tip, the car with the fastest time...