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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purchasing power by 27%. Meanwhile, the Reagan era became famous for skyrocketing maximum wages as greed became fashionable throughout the land. Frustrated by Congress's repeated failures to improve the national standard for the lowest- paid employees, eleven states set higher minimums of their own. Even fast- food chains often find themselves bidding $6 an hour and up for workers who scoff at the minimum wage as "chump change...
Vellucci, a maverick Independent who often criticizes the CCA but shares many of its positions, predicted that the good-government group would find it difficult to meet the expetations of its voters...
...Harvard fans often yell...
While others may expect great things out of MacDonald, he himself expects perfection. Last season with the Crimson, he often questioned his contribution to the program. In the end, he came through with a 60-point season, a school-record career goal total and Harvard's third Hobey Baker award. When MacDonald packed for Switzerland, he didn't leave his trademark modesty at home...
...provide you with plenty of ammunition. This jab at relationships in the 1970s succeeds in ridiculing many of the facades that men and women erect in their dealings, with each other, and it gleefully satirizes the practice of psychotherapy, revealing that the advice which "troubled" patients accept without question often comes from people whose own personal problems make their judgment suspect...