Word: underpaid
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Veteran Buffalo players, feeling underpaid and a little jealous of Simpson's knack for getting publicity, took special joy in such hazing rites as shaving O.J.'s head, making him stand on a table while singing the U.S.C. fight song, and popping him extra hard in practice to let him know that he was playing with the big boys. Trouble was, the Bills were far less accomplished at jolting opponents. Simpson, fresh from two starring appearances in the Rose Bowl, had to painfully adapt to playing with a loser...
...country to act like a penny-pinching miser. The University does, to some extent, act charitably in employing women on part time who would otherwise have difficulty in finding comparable work elsewhere, but last month's case gives no sign whatsoever of any feeling of responsibility toward these underpaid workers, many of whom have served the University for long terms...
...junior year at the University of Massachusetts, Erving quit school to sign a four-year, $500,000 contract with the A.B.A. Virginia Squires. After a brilliant rookie season, Erving decided that he was being grossly underpaid. Last April he signed a five-year contract with the N.B.A.'s Atlanta Hawks for an estimated $1,500,000, subsequently alleging that his Squire contract was invalid...
...United Press International's foreign correspondents have often observed acidly to colleagues that UPI really stands for "underpaid internationally." The chronic complaint of low pay and long hours has caused four veteran American UPI staffers to precipitate a strike in the news agency's London bureau. The four make between $185 and $205 a week, not bad by British standards but far below the minimum of $272 that UPI must pay journeymen in New York. They joined Britain's National Union of Journalists in a bid for shorter work hours, and when the N.U.J. called a walkout...
Although Ackerman refused to say whether she supported the strike against Cronin's she contended that "people are entitled to organize, and waitresses in general are underpaid...