Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Longtime chief of staff Sheila Burke, who shared Dole's skepticism, recalls informing her boss on New Year's Day that another government shutdown was imminent. Dole turned to her, furious, "Did it ever occur to anybody that there are people out there who live paycheck to paycheck?" Dole spun away, saying to no one in particular, "This is the last time." And it was. On Jan. 2 he walked onto the Senate floor in the morning and just ended it. He didn't tell anyone. Didn't call anyone in the leadership. Didn't use any of the mechanisms...
...more of an ideal than a reality, for Harvard undoubtedly means many different things to many of its students. And while Harvard's essence may lie in the expression of its ideals, for some, and perhaps for too many, the Harvard degree is an instrument to a paycheck...
Class means more than the terms more fortunate and less fortunate can convey, says Ourania R. Tserotas '97, who grew up in inner-city Chicago. Different class backgrounds result in "different ways of organizing one's world. Differences mean a lot more than paycheck," she says...
...Working with the homeless has really opened my eyes to realize that many people are just a paycheck away from being homeless, too," she says...
...heard. But this is a concept of democratization that would only make sense to someone with the salary of a law professor or a federal bureaucrat. I don't know a single person in my family or neighborhood who would even think of giving something near a week's paycheck to a political candidate. And it turns out we aren't all that rare; according to Roll Call, fewer than four tenths of one percent of American citizens have given direct campaign contributions of $200 or more...