Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BEA members began their strike against the Burlington schools September 20 after a ten-month salary dispute failed to result in satisfactory pay scales for both sides Spokesmen at BEA claimed that the school committee had failed to bargain in good faith.
The early moon flat and luminous, obscure as wings and eyes, was a dance of naked fish scales propelling white, staring weather through the reeds of driven storm clouds. The west wind off the river was rising. The evening was going to rain Lightning flashed in the far trees illuminating...
The most pervasive racist practice, and the one the one that most blacks come in contact with and feel the most resentment about, is unequal pay scales for black and white workers. It is the exception, not the rule, to find a black man's pay equal to a white...
The hero of Open Heart, for instance, a moony young teacher named Antonio Parr, runs up and down his emotional scales several times when he learns that his wife has slept with his young nephew. But there is no real danger that he will follow his impulse and in revenge...
Miscarriage of justice? Not necessarily, in Hunt's opinion. Having exposed some of the makeweights in the scales of justice, he comes strongly to the defense of the U.S. legal system. "The worst thing about our system," he concludes, "is its dreadful inefficiency." The best thing? The idea that...