Word: underpaid
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...almost an entire month, we will have to concern ourselves with the latest round of soap opera baseball. In this episode, the players are right. In fact, the players are always right, and in this case, for three very good reasons: 1) players are underpaid, 2) the owners are walking off with embarrassingly large profits, and 3) the owners have kept the players under Stalinesque bondage for too long...
First, the players are underpaid. The average $300,000-plus that each major-leaguer scrapes by on is hardly enough to rent a hotel room in each city he plays in during the season...
...aids such an ambition is the acute shortage of priests. Already thousands of women fill in by doing chaplains' work, counseling, Bible readings, indeed, all the tasks of a priest except consecrating the Eucharist, hearing confession, confirming members and administering last rites. Some feminists complain that such assistants are underpaid and exploited, but the more important criticism is that they are still forbidden to conduct the central rituals of the faith...
...York financier John L. Loeb '24, who gave $1 million to the Design School and another $7.5 million to endow 15 junior professorships: "Most young professors are very underpaid compared to the salaries that they could receive in other fields. It seemed to me that one of the important things for our country, not just for Harvard is that these men and women stay in the profession. . . . All of us owe a debt to Harvard for all that our years there have meant to us throughout our lives. We should be especially grateful for the leadership Harvard has provided...
...that jobs should pay in proportion to the difficulty of labor involved, not to the status attached to the position. The argument has gathered political momentum because it is linked with the issues of sex and racial discrimination--minorities and women typically occupy jobs which many claim are underpaid in relation to similar jobs commonly held by white males. Yet while advocates of comparable worth defend the theory as a means to greater equality, legislation requiring businesses to adopt a pay scale along such lines would not only have a deleterious effect on businesses throughout the nation but would also...