Word: paid
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...representing 634,000 postal employees. Under the new contract, the average salary of those workers who are covered -- about $25,200 last year -- will rise some 7% by November 1990, not including cost-of-living adjustments. Tisch could have insisted that more of the work force consist of lower-paid, part-time employees. Instead, the Postal Service left in place guarantees that 90% of the employees will be permanent full-time workers...
...government's attempts at agricultural reform have been sidetracked by the increasingly vicious civil war. Western analysts in Addis Ababa compare the military situation to that in Afghanistan: well-motivated rebels fighting an army of conscripts who are poorly fed and poorly paid. "The army is just not fighting back," says a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa. Mengistu himself has been making frequent trips to the north to oversee military operations. But the rebels are said to be gaining ground daily while relief officials watch their distribution lines crumble. Brother Gregory Flynn, who works for the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat...
Fortunately, twin brother "Gino," played by Ray Liotta (see accompanying interview), is around to provide protection. Gino is in his final year of medical school, paid for by Nicky's garbage salary. Strong, handsome, intelligent-yet-sensitive Gino beats up or otherwise intimidates any hooligans who seem to pose a threat to Nicky. When Gino becomes a doctor, the brothers plan to buy a house by a lake and live happily ever after...
...supposed to be back around now," Reardon said. "We've never had a paid rugby coach, and there has been a real problem with that sort of thing...
...however, says that "Finley was famous as the master who paid the most attention to his house...The real person who set the tone of [Dunster] House was the senior tutor...