Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taxes decline about a third in the past few decades, while those of us in the middle class now pay 329% more than we did 20 years ago, good-natured chumps that we are. The result is a quiet, ongoing upward redistribution of wealth from those who live from paycheck to paycheck to those who think of wages, if they ever do, as pesky "labor costs" they pay to the help...
...reason to doubt him. His divorce from Nancy, a fellow Central Intelligence Agency employee, had become final only 12 days earlier in New York City. In preceding months, Ames had complained bitterly to colleagues at the CIA that the long, messy divorce had gutted his modest civil service paycheck, leaving him "poor...
...December 1983, Rosario went off the CIA payroll. At roughly the same time, Ames was transferred back to Langley headquarters. The shock of discovering that Ames' paycheck did not stretch as far in Washington as it had in Mexico City was probably compounded by Rosario's loss of income as both a cultural attache and a spy. At the same time, Ames' marriage was heading for divorce...
Furthermore, Mansfield's dismissal of bisexual, gay, and lesbian contributions to society is condescending and insulting. Gay students contribute to Mansfield's paycheck. More importantly, millions of lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans vote, do their jobs well, and pay taxes. They are doctors, babysitters, writers, social workers and factory hands. Some hold public office, some serve in the military and some have given their lives for their country. Mansfield's derision of these citizens as having made no contribution to American society other than in the arts and in "undermining conformity" only reveals his own profound ignorance and rank insensitivity...
...have a large number of small paychecks," Scott says. "So it's not worth Harvard's time to find someone for a paycheck that...