Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority population. Washington will most definitely defeat Republican candidate Bernard Epton come April. And once the new administration takes office, the estimated 45,000 city employees who scratched backs with Daley and now-lame duck Mayor Jane Byrne may no longer be assured of a job and a fat paycheck each Friday...
Henry Matson, 62, recalls the night he strolled into a bar called the Great Alaskan Bush Co. with a $12,579.64 paycheck in his pocket. At least he remembers the beginning of the night. Matson, who had been fishing for salmon in Alaska's Bristol Bay, was looking for a good time in the rowdy Anchorage saloon. And he got exactly what he wanted, according to Owner Edna Cox, who agreed to cash Matson's check. He spent the night, she said, "buying all the patrons in the club drinks, paying numerous girls for table dances, handing...
...prostitute. I could laugh 'em off. I knew more than they did, I betcha!" Inoculated against the vices she witnessed, Hunter never smoked or drank and saved a nickel of every dime she earned. Every week she sent her mother, whom she revered, a portion of her paycheck. Finally, her mother told her to stop; she was tired of going to the bank...
...Glashow decides to pick a university on the basis of money alone. It will be a very quick choice, and one that will keep the physicist a good deal warmer in the winter. But in choosing between a Harvard paycheck and a Texas A&M paycheck. Glashow is not only confronted with two disparate salary policies, but also with the two diametrically opposite educational philosophies they reflect...
...speech. The choice fell on Michigan Senator Donald Riegle, who is little known nationally. In a hastily prepared 7-min. talk following Reagan's 23-min. address, Riegle derided the President's plea that the nation "stay on course." Asked Riegle: "If you live from paycheck to paycheck, do you feel more secure about your job? If you own a small business, are you feeling more secure? What kind of course is this?" However, like other Democratic spokesmen in recent months, Riegle was hampered by his party's inability to produce any coherent and convincing alternative...