Word: minimum
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Telemarketing would not be the complete answer for small towns, because it generally offers mostly minimum-wage jobs. Several studies have found that the full blossoming of a high-tech economy comes only after it receives a heavy dose of defense contracts. The bulk of that money currently goes to the country's heavily populated coastal regions, which have the most congressional representation. Says Tom Daniels, associate professor of regional and community planning at Kansas State: "Look where all the defense dollars are going, and you can see we are creating a bicoastal economy...
...Administration's issue agenda too is pulled in many directions at once. The peripatetic President delivers several speeches a week, and sometimes several a day, on subjects as diverse as drugs, volunteerism, government service, ethics, education, child care and the minimum wage. On the morning after his Feb. 9 budget address, he flew to Canada. Then he exhausted his staff (though not himself) on a whirlwind five-day tour to Japan, China and South Korea, including formal meetings with two dozen foreign leaders that required extensive preparation and diverted the Administration from the efforts to confirm Tower and to fill...
...Lorenzo's stripping of Eastern's valuable assets constitutes, at a minimum, gross mismanagement and incompetence," the pilots union said...
...society more favorably disposed to women would involve the promotion of policies which would address the unique pressures which women face in our day and age--namely, comprehensive public-sector and corporate childcare programs, extended maternity leaves, just palimony rulings and enforcement, affordable housing, minimum wages in accordance with the costs of living and greater aid to struggling parents with dependent children. In short, a society in which economic survival, work, school, career, life expectations and motherhood are not mutually exclusive, as they often are now for single, young and poor women...
...wanted a kidney, another person had a spare kidney and wanted $4,400, so they did a deal. What's more, it seems like an advantageous deal all around. The buyer avoided a lifetime of dialysis. The seller provided crucial help to his child, at minimum risk to himself. (According to the Economist, the chance of a kidney donor's dying as a result of the loss...