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...labor seems to have hit on a winning legislative tactic in the battle over pay. Congress hasn't acted in nearly a decade, and although 140 local living-wage laws have been enacted in the U.S., most apply just to city workers or contractors. Union leaders say the Chicago rule means a long-overdue raise for the working poor. In real terms, wages for nonmanagerial retail workers have fallen 18% since 1975. But David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says the law could deter inner-city economic development. "Companies affected by this ordinance have capital budgets they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where to Get a Pay Raise | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...There was no umpire. The DOJ respects the rule of law." BRIAN ROEHRKASSE, Justice Department spokesman, on the department's softball team--with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales pitching all seven innings--beating the U.S. Attorneys' team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Aug. 21, 2006 | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...anti-Chavez Venezuelans alike take it for granted that he will win another six years in power. But then again, this is a country that over the last four years has seen a failed coup d'etat, two-month oil strikes and a referendum on the president's rule. In other words, in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez, anything can happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Chavez's Opposition For Real? | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...upset other members of my middle-class Catholic family, since the only record player was in the dining room, where anyone could hear or overhear the LPs, and nobody gave me an angry shout to turn that junk off. So, by applying contemporary community standards (our house), I'd rule that Lenny Bruce was not obscene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tribute to Lenny Bruce | 8/10/2006 | See Source »

...rule, Time South Pacific reports on the region's most influential people. Here, our focus is on Australians who live away from the big cities and reveal other facets of the nation's character. Tom Dusevic met Peter Burton, who turns grass into T-bones in the Kimberley; Elizabeth Keenan visited the kitchen of Warrant Officer John Benstead, 22 years an Army cook and now based in Townsville; Michael Fitzgerald tracked down Doug Pekin, a dogger who maintains 500 km of dingo-proof fence on the Nullarbor; Daniel Williams joined hands at a Sunday service with the dwindling faithful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Continental Drifters | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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