Word: minimum
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...that the industries in which they have worked all their lives will not provide middle-income jobs to their daughters and sons, who may of course make their fortunes as junk-bond traders or software geniuses, but are far more likely to find "hamburger jobs" and drop into the minimum-wage sector of an increasingly bottom-heavy economy...
...More has returned home to Feliciana parish, that swath of Louisiana land running "from the Mississippi to the Pearl, from the thirty-first parallel to the Crayola blue of Lake Pontchartrain." More (a prominent, visionary presence in Love in the Ruins) has spent two years in a minimum-security federal prison in Alabama for peddling uppers and downers. "I needed the money," he tells the two physician friends who have been charged with overseeing his probation. Now Tom, alcoholism temporarily in control, needs to resume his psychiatric practice. The trouble is, no one in Feliciana seems to require...
There is another possible scenario: if a star is a minimum of 30 to 40 times as massive as the sun, its gravitational collapse could be so violent that it may never become a supernova at all. Instead of bouncing back at the instant of maximum scrunch, the core continues its collapse indefinitely, forming a bizarre object of infinitesimal size and nearly infinite density, with a gravitational field so intense that light itself cannot escape -- a black hole. In effect, the entire, tremendous mass of the star has gone down a cosmic drain...
Other topics included American women travellers in 19th century Europe, women at Oxford and Cambridge between 1870 and 1920, and the struggle between 1923 and 1937 for the establishment of a minimum wage for American women...
Which makes the "they can't win" refrain somewhat ironic. It comes most often from precisely those people in Congress who are constantly fighting to cut aid to the contras, reducing their supplies to the barest minimum, or trying to eliminate assistance altogether. Having disarmed the resistance, they then assert that it cannot win, and then cite the inability to win as a reason for disarming it. A neat circle...