Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magazines devoted to men only increase their isolation. GQ, for example, tempts guys with all the cool things they can have if they don't share their paycheck with a wife and kids: Italian shoes, fly-fishing vacations, babes galore. The masculine ideal of popular culture has long since ceased to be the man in the gray-flannel suit, trudging dutifully between office and home. It has become the millionaire hoop star with a stable of interchangeable gal pals, or the yuppie bachelor investing in his home wine cellar...
...that kind of paycheck, many of the women who work at this and other auto plants are willing to shoulder some boorish behavior in addition to the tough, sometimes monotonous job on the line. Others are not. As early as 1992, female employees at Mitsubishi began to complain of sexual misbehavior on the factory floor. They reported obscene, crude sketches of genital organs and sex acts, and names of female workers scratched into unpainted car bodies moving along the assembly line. Women were called sluts, whores and bitches and subjected to groping, forced sex play and male flashing. Explicit sexual...
...Daniels, welcoming Grey to his talk show on WJZD, Gulfport's Afro-American radio station. Grey cites failed restaurants and increased crime in Gulfport since casinos arrived. "The more gambling, the more the rich get richer," he charges. "Casinos are in the business of separating you from your paycheck...
...healthy economy produces a surplus of losers among factory workers and middle managers alike. Investment is rising, and every week the stock market strains its own altimeter. Yet since 1991 some 2.5 million workers have lost jobs in corporate restructurings. Most have found new ones, but with thinner paychecks. Last week the Labor Department reported that wages and benefits in 1995 rose just 2.8%, the slowest pace in at least 15 years and scarcely enough to keep pace with inflation. One big reason: layoffs and other cost-cutting moves kept workers in line and their paycheck demands low. Meanwhile, corporate...
...must not forget who will pay the bills and suffer the consequences for the decisions made today. Next time you get a paycheck, pay careful attention to how much of your money you never even get to see, due to payroll taxes that are used to pay for dinosaur programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Next time the tax man comes around, pay attention to how much money you are signing over to him--and know that that figure will be much higher if we allow our country to continue to drift into economic oblivion...