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...community groups, found in 1992 that some 30% of soup-kitchen attendees tended to have jobs. But the jobs didn't pay enough to give them a ladder out of poverty. The federal minimum wage was in the middle of a decline in its buying power, from a 1968 peak of $1.60, which is equivalent to $8.17 in today's dollars, to its current level of $5.15. The community organizers teamed up with union muscle, and after two years of lobbying, a living-wage law was passed...
...dash at Rice in 47.30 seconds—third-best on the school’s all-time performance list. That’s nearly a second’s worth improvement over Fuller’s run of 48.17 at the Outdoor Heptagonal championships, which was supposedly his peak meet last season...
...Then Moore got drunk - his slurring, staggering, prat-falling millionaire in 1981's "Arthur" was the part of Moore's career, and also the peak. But if "Unfaithfully Yours," "Micki and Maude," "Best Defense," "Like Father, Like Son" and 1988's "Arthur 2: On the Rocks" were not the stuff of a lifetime achievement award, Moore continued to deliver what he did best - an always-funny mix of the underdog charm and comedic frustration of a little man trying to get his in a big dog's world...
...HOMMER First double amputee Hommer ascended 20,320-ft. Mount McKinley in 1999 and last year climbed 3,000 ft. short of Everest's peak. Now he's training for a new try next spring. The first person to summit with an artificial leg was Tom Whittaker...
...been more projected than real. "We've seen stabilization, but the end market hasn't recovered," notes analyst Jeremy Lopez at MORNINGSTAR. At Applied Materials, revenue will be down 40% this year, and the firm will earn just 25[cents] a share, Chaney estimates, compared with $2.39 in the peak year of 2000. It will be two to three years before earnings per share top the previous peak, he says. And you shouldn't own the stock unless you believe that will happen...