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...more. Under their U.S. Government cost-plus fixed-fee contracts, RMK-BRJ's wage scales are pegged at 1957 levels; machinists start at 20? an hour, laborers 8?. Since the cost of living has zoomed 64% in the past 15 months, the glow of the U.S. paycheck has dimmed...
...joys and hazards of retirement, the bad side of the "good old days" in the early-20th century U.S. Why, one contributor asks, are workingmen rarely portrayed in any television dramas? "The deep thinkers who arrange things on the home screen," he wrote, "have somehow made the whole paycheck populace disappear. Automation at its deadliest couldn't possibly be more thorough...
When most Americans cast eyes on their first paycheck of the new year, shudders flashed down their backbones straight to their wallets. To help offset higher benefits and the new medicare program, the social security withholding nick in take-home pay went up from 3.625% to 4.2% on Jan. 1. As a result, a man earning $100 a week saw his paycheck shrink 58?. The $10,000-a-year man's first weekly take-home was down...
That 4.2% slice comes out of every paycheck until the wage earner has paid the legal maximum of $277.20 ($103.20 more than last year). Thus the more a man makes, the bigger will be the amount withheld from his paycheck at the rate of 4.2% but the sooner the bite will end for the year...
Hope Diamond is a pro, but one gets the feeling that she's as much of an efficient businesswoman as a performer, that she draws a paycheck, not like the older burlies performers the very breath of life, from the spotlight. She's more of a respectable madame figure than a temptress. And when the show has closed and the props are packed, she is no longer Hope Diamond, gem of the exotics, but Leona Bonaccolte, reader of Gibran, mother, and resident of Edgewater...