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...also helped land him a job with Boise Cascade, the Idaho-headquartered forest-products company, which was growing rapidly. After four years, Agee was company treasurer; two years later, he was vice president and chief financial officer and pulled down the corporation's third biggest paycheck. Nothing was left but to take over the top job, but it was clearly predestined for John Fery, then executive vice president...
...main reason women seek work is that one paycheck is no longer enough. Women enter the work force to make up for lost purchasing power. When they lose their jobs their families are decidedly poorer. And this is what makes unemployment much worse for people than it appears to statisticians...
Those who do have jobs will not receive their first paycheck for another two weeks. And it will be months, and maybe years, before most workers can recover financially from the strike. And one woman--permanently disabled in a violent confrontation with police on a picket line in May--will never fully recover...
With Watergate still fresh in our minds, with so many people out of work, with the number of people under the poverty level at an alltime high, with inflation still at an unacceptable rate, with taxes gobbling up our whole paycheck -how can you say that...
...Only people like us," I began, "students, politicos, suburban liberals who aren't caught up in busing, abortion, Israel and imagined economic catastrophe, have the mental energy to worry about your South American friends. Most people have all they can do to think about next week's paycheck. They don't want to hear from Brazil," I said. "And the Brazilians don't vote in America...