Word: peg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...currently before the Congress is sponsored by Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D--Cal.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D--Mass.), a staunch labor supporter and the chair of the Senate labor committee. It would increase the wage incrementally for three years, peaking at $4.65 in 1991, and would afterwards peg the minimum wage at half of the national average wage...
...suing the film company for $25 million in a dispute over royalties from the blockbuster videocassette of Disney's 1955 animated tale, Lady and the Tramp. Lee co-wrote all the movie's songs and provided the voices for four characters, including a torch-song-singing Pekingese named Peg. Her fee: $4,000, meager even by 1950s standards...
...part of the plan may cut back on student choice without enhancing diversity. It calls for an end to telling rooming groups their lottery number. This practice has helped students peg their house choices to realistic expectations, and it should not be eliminated...
...have pressured Congress into considering a major revision of the minimum-wage law. Similar bills, introduced in the Senate by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and in the House by California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, would increase the base pay of American workers to $4.55 by 1991 and then automatically peg it to 50% of the national average wage (currently $9.28). The Democratic Party platform adopted in Atlanta last week calls for a minimum that rises automatically with inflation. But lawmakers have bogged down in a debate over whether the move would help or hurt its intended beneficiaries -- the working poor...
...point of view, says Assistant Managing Editor Richard Duncan, who oversees the magazine's role in the series, "it was a natural, a story we've been covering closely for decades." When the Reagan- Gorbachev summit opens in Moscow on May 29, the show will have a solid news peg...