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Unfortunately, these legislators are just not prepared to be beyond the issues of the 1950s. They are badly underpaid and unable to devote full time to state problems. Their leaders are too often left over from the dreary days before reapportionment, and most legislators do not have time to do much more than clear the paper off their desks. Even in the large states, most legislators do not have their own secretaries, much less any staff assistants...
Under the honor system, shoppers select their groceries, tot up their tab on an adding machine, then pay a cashier. The sum is never questioned. "From time to time," says Migros Sales Chief Rolf Frieden, "we have customers who come back saying they underpaid us, but it happens just as often the other way. We always make up the difference, no questions asked." At the test store, sales went up, overhead went down, and pilferage amounted to only 0.3% of sales, just about what it had been before...
...Viet Cong soldier, who, though underfed, underpaid and underequipped, has fought the world's most powerful nation to a standstill...
...GREAT MUTINY, by James Dugan. The British fleet in 1797 may have seemed invincible to the French, but 50,000 of His Majesty's seamen, fed up with being underfed, underpaid and too often flogged, took control of 100 vessels and blockaded their own country in the biggest mass mutiny in maritime history...
...internship year at an unidentified metropolitan hospital in the Southwest, just as he recounted it into a tape recorder at odd moments snatched from duty. Its candor conceals nothing but the true names of patients and staff. The result is a rare and unforgettable account of that underpaid, overworked, fumble-fingered and annealing process by which the medical-school graduate at last earns the right to practice...