Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...browse through possible food relief programs in Africa. Despite the fact that I'd have to pay half my tuition to experience the toils, to live on the edge, to test my limits of compassion and public service, I'd also need to write five essays proving "Why are relief programs in Africa necessary...
...compromise may be possible. Democrats initially resisted Bush's demand that employers be allowed to pay their newest employees a subminimum, so- called training wage of $3.35 during their first six months on the job. The House acquiesced but set a two-month limit on the training wage. If the Senate extends the subminimum to three months, Bush may decide to go along with a higher rate than he originally proposed...
...contras is clearly a kind of mustering-out pay designed to keep the contras, currently bivouacked in Honduras, fed and clothed for another year, until a more permanent solution is worked out. To that end, the plan calls for the "voluntary reintegration" of the contras into Nicaraguan political life or their "voluntary regional relocation," language that makes it evident they are finished as a fighting force, barring an act of major treachery by the Sandinistas...
Since 1986 India has ranked as the world's largest arms importer: in 1987 it purchased weaponry from abroad valued at $5.2 billion, more than Iraq and Iran combined and twelve times more than Pakistan. Largely to gain the foreign exchange needed to pay its military imports bill, India is preparing to enter the world arms bazaar as an exporter...
...African-American family has been middle class since the 1700s and deeply involved in the fight for black equality. You brilliantly describe what it feels like to make $150,000 a year, pay high taxes and yet have a white woman in a supermarket line who assumes you are on welfare turn to her husband and say of the porterhouse steak in your basket, "Thanks to us, see what they can afford?" This piece should be required reading for every American...