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...Chicago's South Side. As urban school systems have crumbled in recent years, teachers such as she have been increasingly berated. They have been charged from afar with destroying the minds of ghetto children, with arrogance and racism in the classroom, with a cynical desire merely to extract a paycheck from their job until they can transfer to a "better" school. They are an easy target...
Ryan will draw his additional salary by taking one-fourth of the paycheck of Andrew W. Nelson, the full-time adult general manager of HSA. The University, through the committee on Financial Aid, pays half of Nelson's salary. Thus the Financial Aid committee will be paying half of Ryan's supplemental income...
...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...
...over their desolate towns, hostile toward all outsiders, wary even of each other. There is no Hatfield-McCoy romance to their bitter internecine feuds. Sometimes the young are lured away by gaudy tales of life in Cincinnati and Atlanta and Chicago, but they usually return home after the first paycheck to "lay out" under the moon on the gritty hillsides and guzzle from bottles of home-stilled corn...
...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...