Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decide whether they're going to give birth because "Well, we may not be able to afford the 24 hours because it's going to cause us to miss work and to have to get a hotel room." Well, how are you going to afford three months without a paycheck for parental leave if you can't afford 24 hours off to decide whether to have...
Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it's a dream that was, a twilit memory of the golden age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promise of paradise regained has become a key to the Democratic Party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U.S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich...
...notes and seemed interested, says Smith, but have yet to follow up. A representative of Pakistan has made inquiries. Markets in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have a lot of potential but not much prospect of immediate payoff. For Smith, who hasn't had a paycheck in two years, that's important...
...living in a place called Yekaterinburg in Russia's Ural Mountains. You'd be working each day at a fiery steel-casting oven. And, because the factory pays wages only sporadically, you wouldn't know when to expect your next paycheck...
...Island, chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, has urged government funding for supernatural research, fearful that Russian scientists might be ahead of the U.S. in paranormal matters. Until recently, Pell retained a special assistant with top-secret security clearance who devoted himself solely to such research, for a paycheck of $49,000 a year. And, can we ever forget, a U.S. President and his First Lady arranged even their official schedules on the advice of an astrologer in San Francisco? Even TIME magazine sometimes slips into the trap, as it did in a recent cover story on alternative medicine...