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...major difference between Gray and Jones, say advocates for low-wage workers, is that she lives in a city where janitors are unionized and have collectively negotiated salaries considerably above the minimum wage, what they call a living wage. The living-wage movement has been building steam as outsourcing moves millions of relatively high-wage manufacturing jobs overseas, leaving behind less mobile, low-paying ones such as health-care aides, security guards and janitors. But it may have got a new burst of energy when the Change to Win Federation, made up of seven labor unions that split from...
...book canned or frozen fruits and veggies are actually better because they're packed when they're fresh and they're a lot cheaper." Birds Eye has a new product out called Steamfresh, which consists of flash-frozen vegetables packed in a bag designed to be steam-cooked in a microwave. The process is intended to help consumers cook vegetables in less than five minutes without boiling away their nutritional value and without the nuisance of pots to clean. "Some products come with too much buttery sauce," Lempert says. "Just getting veggies without anything added is a good thing...
...mahogany-and- velvet-trimmed sleeper cars that dated from the 1940s, drank cocktails while listening to live piano music in the sumptuous club car, and dined on five-star meals. The passing sights prompted the elder Geddes to unfold new stories about his past: his days shoveling coal into steam engines, his first trip with John's mother. Over the miles, the train ride became special for both of them...
...have any rituals on tour? Rest, humidity and prayer. In New York, I have a steam room with a bed in it. Everything is waterproof...
...editorial pages of that year, was marked by affairs that may seem anachronistic today; yet they are relevant still. As movements for women’s rights and gay rights gained prominence in the student psyche, a concerted attempt at minority enfranchisement within the Harvard Faculty gained steam. Ineffectual government was also on the forefront of student thought, as students became disillusioned by the newly-created Student Assembly as well as the tepid politics of the Democratic Party. That Harvard seems prone to a glacial pace of change is manifested in an excerpt on the creation of a new Literature...