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...wonder a third of my paycheck goes to taxes: now I have to pay Egypt and Israel to get them to sign an agreement...
...that the rise in the Consumer Price Index slowed radically to an annual rate of 2.4% in August, from 15.4% the previous month. Retail food prices, which had shot up in early summer, did not rise at all in August. The purchasing power of the average worker's paycheck was 1.1% higher than in August 1974, marking the first time that real spendable income exceeded a year-earlier figure since February...
Moreover, the union is almost daily extending its reach into scores of manufacturing and service industries that have little if anything to do with trucking. Expulsion from the AFL-CIO freed the union of the federation's jurisdictional boundaries; its organizers go after almost everyone who earns a paycheck, sometimes extending their efforts to shops that have only three or four workers. Last year the Teamsters participated in a third of the 9,000 representation elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, far more than any other union, and won about half-a solid record...
...together unless the director decrees otherwise," promises Godfather Author Mario Puzo, who last week began his newest project, a movie script of Superman. Puzo, whose scripts for Godfather I and Earthquake are expected to gross $225 million for their Hollywood studios, says Superman will bring him a heroic paycheck well into six figures. And how will the leotarded champion of truth, justice and the American way find his own way into the boudoir? "It is a crucial question, but I have figured it out," says Puzo mysteriously. "I can't get campy; if I could, the possibilities are limitless...
Loeser's original points are well taken. There is a far wider range of activity available to the average person through volunteering than through paid employment. A paycheck cannot glamorize unimportant work, nor can the lack of one take the glow off interesting and useful work. But she stops at that...