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...this incident doesn't set the tone for the book, which is pretty stately and keeps displays of divine superpowers to a minimum. Young Jesus is largely unaware of his origins, and much of the book is taken up with his daily life and that of his extended family as they make their way from Alexandria, in Egypt, to Nazareth, where they settle down and go into business. Rice does a thorough job of re-creating the domestic realities of 1st century Judaea: the babble of languages--Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin--the labor of carpentry; the regular visits...
...took Congress 10 years to respond to the Studebaker pension abandonment by writing the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974. It established minimum standards for retirement plans in private industry and created the PBGC to guarantee them. Then President Gerald Ford summed up the measure when he signed it into law that Labor Day: "This legislation will alleviate the fears and the anxiety of people who are on the production lines or in the mines or elsewhere, in that they now know that their investment in private pension funds will be better protected...
...addition to mentioning the problems of poverty, Edwards proposed possible solutions, including a higher minimum wage, housing vouchers, and what he called “work bonds,” which would allow low-income families to have their savings matched by the government...
...many of the films screened at the Brattle, including those in the “Recent Raves” series of popular second-run indie films, are only shown once. “It is the most costly way to program because you’re not dividing that minimum over a number of days,” says Moylan, meaning that attendance at every single show is important to the return on that film. With a house capacity of 240, anywhere from 150-200 tickets a show is an attendance to get excited about, says Hinkle, but many don?...
...newly found time on the hands of the Harvard University Police Department—free to double its force for the next Lamont party.There is only one problem. As Freakonomist, University of Chicago professor Stephen Levitt has pointed out, your average street hustler earns less than the minimum wage. Employees who serve the Harvard community should be doing better than that. If we legalize drugs, drug dealers will have to be paid a minimum wage, if not the living wage. This, however, may put some drug dealers out of business, since, as Mankiw tells us, an increase in wage leads...