Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more evident promise of further promotion?or not hire at all. The minimum wage, says Sociologist Riesman, is the product of "an alliance of the better situated labor unions with the liberals against the deprived and the elderly, whom people would otherwise employ for household or for city work that now doesn't get done." Adds Stanford University Labor Economist Thomas Sowell, a black: "Talk about people being unemployable is just so much rubbish. Everybody is unemployable at one wage rate, and everybody is employable at another." Perhaps not quite everybody. In a free economy, there will always be some...
Congress has been considering a proposal to reduce the minimum wage for all teen-agers to 75% of the adult minimum, but that might just inspire employers to hire well-schooled middle-class youth at the expense of older workers. A better compromise, suggested by Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein, would be for the Government to subsidize minimum-wage payments to the youthful unemployed. Directed specifically to the underclass, the program would allow businessmen to pay a fraction of the cost for jobs that they might otherwise refuse to fill. Another wise Government investment would be to shift some federal funds...
...rough nose count indicates at least 50 Senators for the treaty, 20 unalterably opposed (a minimum of 34 will be needed to block the treaty). Proponents are encouraged by the defection of Barry Goldwater and S.I. Hayakawa. Since Barry switched, he says that Ronald Reagan has not spoken to him. Explains Goldwater, resignedly: "I would have said that we should fight for the canal if necessary. But the Viet Nam years have taught me that we wouldn't. So we might as well hand it over." During his California senatorial campaign, Hayakawa quipped: "We stole it fair and square...
...study of some 60 near drownings convinced him that in warmer waters, the limit for submersion without death or brain damage probably was four minutes. But in waters below 21° C. (70° F.), the four-minute rule seemed to be suspended. Of 15 victims rescued after a minimum of four minutes from the chilly waters that abound in Michigan, Nemiroff found, two died of lung infections and two suffered brain damage. But eleven, including Cunningham and a physician who has since successfully resumed his medical practice, were resuscitated without long-term injury. "The patients are as damaged...
...Harrier training. Those with less than 1,000 hours are called "first tourists" - and generally fly Harriers with a more experienced pilot in the other seat. Among the Harrier's more enthusiastic "first tourists": Prince Charles, who delights in taking off vertically and then skimming along at minimum altitudes...