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...that these seas don't affect me. I'm perfectly fine. This movie is my kind of thing. I love the water and the sea and being able to do a story about people who make their living out here, doing all this crazy, adventurous stuff to get a paycheck. So I'm having a lot of fun, even if it's a very tragic movie...
...beginning of a career--at the very bottom. For the first few weeks, I photocopied, typed up forms, tried my hand (and miserably failed) at taking dictation and sought to reorganize a mountain of files that had be recently transferred from another firm. Somewhere into my third paycheck (at this point I was still focused on the money), I was summoned into the office of one of the partners, who said that I had wasted enough time at the fax machine and that I should find myself some real work to do. Slightly bemused, I responded that...
...success, according to local officials, was the active support of Webster Groves' 292 teachers, many of whom helped in the canvassing effort on behalf of a tax that would add 8% to their average $42,400 annual paycheck. Starting at 8 a.m. for four consecutive Saturdays in March, the teachers and other school supporters went door to door throughout Webster Groves. Says Cathy Vespereny, a spokeswoman for the district: "Having a teacher show up at your door had a big impact...
...personal life, balancing finances hasn't been easy since Garcia and her sons' father separated more than a year ago. Family finances had always been tight, and with just one paycheck, Garcia found herself using credit cards to buy the basics. "Sometimes when you don't have money and you need to buy things for your kids, like food and stuff like that, you use the credit card because it's so easy," she says...
...next payday. The lender may charge up to $40 for a $200 loan to be repaid in two weeks. That's an annual interest rate of 521%. In exchange for the advance, the lender requires the borrower to write a check for $240, dated to coincide with his next paycheck. When the two weeks are up, the borrower may repay the loan or roll it over into a new one, further increasing the interest charges. If the borrower fails to do either, the lender cashes the postdated check. If it bounces, the lender sues and in some states collects...