Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...productive citizenship under highly adverse and sometimes dangerous conditions. Applicant must be willing to fill gaps left by unfit, absent or working parents, satisfy demands of state politicians and local bureaucrats, impart healthy cultural and moral values and -- oh, yes -- teach the three Rs. Hours: 50-60 a week. Pay: fair (getting better). Rewards: mostly intangible...
Earnings, or the lack thereof, have much to do with the exodus. During the 1970s, while salaries in other fields soared, teachers' pay fell 15% in real dollars. In some states starting salaries remain as low as $13,000. In Mississippi social-studies teacher Jewelie Brown makes only $22,200 after 31 years in the classroom. Californian Ken Capie does better: $41,000 after 30 years, but that is still $3,000 less than his 25-year-old son's starting salary as an engineer...
...rushing to fatten teachers' paychecks. Since 1980 the average teacher's salary has risen 61.7%, from $17,364 to $28,085. The improvement does not dazzle many teachers, who say the increase has yet to make up the losses of the past. But some districts are finding that better pay is a magnet for fresh teaching talent. Since last summer, when it approved a three-year contract providing for salaries of up to $64,000, Dade County, Fla., has received nine applications for every teaching vacancy. "We really have the pick of the crop," exults assistant superintendent Gerald Dreyfuss...
...Cornell, hockey tickets are such a hot item that students on campus not only have to pay $67 dollars for season tickets (most colleges, including Harvard, allow the students to attend hockey games for free), but they must camp out overnight to buy those tickets--similar to getting tickets for a Sting concert...
Sahfiq Sayed stars as Krishna, a little boy banned from his home for lighting fire to a bicycle belonging to one of his brother's customers. He can go back, he tells his friends, as soon as he raises 500 rupees to pay for the misdeed. Then, he believes, he will once again have a home in his sweet little village. Krishna finds employment as a chaipau, or tea boy, running around to the prostitues and barbershops delivering the muddy liquid. And he hopes he can earn the 500 rupees he thinks will bring him home...