Word: minimum
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Republican true believers, for example, were horrified this winter to hear Dole on the Sunday chat shows saying he might go along with Clinton's effort to raise the minimum wage in return for the President's agreeing to cut capital-gains taxes. As one Senate aide put it last week, "Dole does not have any concept of the political advantage of losing. There are times when you make your political point better by losing, or at least by risking losing." That pragmatism frustrates the new daredevil Republicans in the Senate. And it marks a distinct contrast with the style...
...individual working at minimum-wage job offers her family a subsistence-level existence at best--a stark contrast to the almost unlimited potential of a holder of a college degree," Wilson writes...
...compassionate nation, but no more. Executives try to get the most work out of the fewest people at the least cost. As the gap between the haves and the have-nots widens, we haves had better watch out! I fear for my country unless we increase the minimum wage and help the working poor feel hopeful again. It is shameful. ELLEN FRIEDMANN Cypress, California...
...adds, the hearings may provide a sense of closure that has eluded the affair so far. Still, in an event that coincides with politically-charged hearings on the federal siege at Waco, "the Republicans will be doing their best to paint a picture of an Administration that is at minimum politically inept...
...first time in nearly three years, theFederal Reserve cut interest rates by one-fourth of a point today, in hope that easing borrowing costs might prevent the U.S. from slipping into recession. "They did the bare minimum they could to tell the markets they were concerned," saysTIME's Suneel Ratan. It seems to be working: while at least two major banks reduced their consumer loan rates to 8.75 percent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 48 points to close at another record 4,664. But Ratan notes that the markets were counting on the move: "Ordinarily, the impact...