Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grocery store's meat counter. He was looking forward to a quiet evening in his suburban home. But as soon as he stepped into his house, his anxious wife told him: "Dan's wife called. Dan's gone, and he's got the paycheck." The pair quickly jumped into their car and conducted a door-to-door, bar-to-bar search through Minneapolis' toughest section. They finally found Dan having a drink at a party in a housing project and called his wife, who came to pick him up. The Morins made sure that...
...guideline is 5.5% annually, but that does not necessarily apply to every paycheck. The rule that most directly affects the majority of low-or medium-paid workers-including millions of nonunionized whitecollar, clerical and semiprofessional employees-is that the total, or aggregate wage increase must be held to 5.5% within each "employee unit." Such a unit could be a department, a whole company, or a labor union that in the past has been grouped together in the same wage adjustment. Thus the boss is perfectly free to grant 10% pay raises to secretaries and only 1% increases to cleaning women...
Some teaching fellows collected one paycheck at the higher rate before the August freeze. Most however did not collect their salary until September when the wage freeze had already gone into effect...
...year ago to supplement her husband's $11,000 annual income as a supervisor for an oil-equipment firm. Even though more than half of her $7,000-a-year salary goes for the care of their two children and other work-related expenses, the second paycheck has helped. "It seemed that our arguments always centered on how our money should be spent," Mrs. Wrigley says. "With more coming in, we give each other wider latitude." Their recent purchases have included a 16-ft. motorboat and some new home decorations...
...Indeed, the rise of workingwomen is caused at least as much by their desire for respect as for cold cash. If the trend to working mothers seems uncaring and unwise, defenders of it point out that a second paycheck often allows fathers to spend more time with their children. Not only is Dad freed of some pressure to work overtime and struggle for promotion, but he also feels an obligation to get home and help Mother with the chores...