Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fixture of the New Orleans police department. Because police there are among the lowest paid in any major city in America--a fresh recruit makes $14,900 a year, for example, and a 20-year veteran makes $30,000--it has long been assumed the officers would supplement their wages with detail work, which they perform in full uniform. They usually make between $10 and $15 an hour, and many work 40 or more extra hours a week. The department's pay scale has also led to problems in recruiting qualified applicants. "Everybody knows they are grossly underpaid," says Neil...
...about ancient societies. Rather, our knowledge of these cultures has been generated by a century of painstaking excavation and research. From these efforts, we have constructed a relatively sophisticated picture of the behavior of pre- and early-modern human societies. Cave art provides little more than an impressive visual supplement to this. I wonder whether we really are better off having discovered it. Eventually, this cave will be virtually closed up in order to preserve it. There will be a large, glossy tome in book shops, but we will still be in the dark about what it all means...
...Volunteers aren't to take the place of teachers, who are capable and competent," says Morazes. "The purpose is to supplement...
Lawson asked for one year to serve, with "fulland complete" restitution and a period ofcommunity service to supplement the probationimposed by the court. He also asked the court tosend Lee to the Middleton House of Corrections, aminimum security prison...
Take Pedro, for example. Five days a week, Pedro, who won't let his last name be used because he fears retaliation from both his bosses and his union, does cleaning work on campus for Boston-based Unicco. That should leave him two days off, but he has to supplement that income, he says, in order to support his children...