Word: paycheck
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Contrary to Morgan's assertion, Cardinal Health took every reasonable step to avoid the strike with Teamsters Local 42. The company even offered on three separate occasions to extend the contract, so that employees could continue to work and earn a paycheck while the negotiations continued. These are hardly the actions of a company determined to, in Morgan's words, "break the union." The union refused to consider these offers and chose to go out on strike...
...Damon is making his choices on the basis of the part, not the paycheck. He seems content with the $600,000 he will be paid to appear in Rounders, the poker movie he's getting ready to shoot for Miramax. ("They've been great to me," says Damon.) It's from a first script by two unproduced young screenwriters and will be directed by The Last Seduction's John Dahl, who after four pictures has yet to make a major commercial success. No one seems to be very worried about its prospects, though. Maybe that's because the whole project...
...meantime, he isn't worrying about his paycheck. He's considering doing what so many retired Politburo and KGB bigwigs have done: writing his memoirs. Maybe with the royalties, he'd be able to move his wife Lyudmilla and daughters Natasha, 13, and Yevgeniya, 8, out of the apartment he's lived in since...
...striking Teamsters are not so easily swayed. For every wide-eyed college student who worked a happy summer at UPS, there are hundreds of working class Joes forced to scrimp out a full-time living from a part-time paycheck...
What right do we have to complain about teenage smoking when we are signing the paycheck for the best salesman the cigarette industry has ever had? As anyone who has ever been a teenager knows, the Surgeon General's message on a pack of cigarettes is a challenge, not a disincentive. It gives the teenager an opportunity to display his machismo without having to consider the consequences until the dim and distant future. BEN HARNEY Spokane, Wash...