Word: underpaid
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...things considered, the lot of New York City Police Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy has been tough and not particularly happy. An up-from-the-ranks cop with the personality of a blunt instrument (TIME Cover, July 7, 1958), Steve Kennedy had to run an understaffed, underpaid army of 24,000 men, many of them good, some of them not, most of them as contentious as only a New Yorker -and a uniformed one at that-can be. Stubborn, straight as a pistol shot, he worked relentlessly for 5½ years to instill honesty, discipline and a sense of pride...
...gregariousness have made him a delight to get along with ("Quarreling with him is impossible," says one of his canons). He administered the Anglican Church with the same efficiency he once showed as headmaster of Repton, one of Britain's best schools; and his clergy, though woefully underpaid, is better off than when he took office. But he failed to inspire the majority of Anglicans who are only nominal Christians with new or urgent faith, and in his reign England's churches remained largely empty...
...strongest reactions came from those who think teaching fellows are underpaid. One instructor declared that younger teachers are "exploited" by most of the departments and that "they work many more hours than they are paid...
Talk of this sort was right down the back alley of Ike Williams, onetime (1947-51) lightweight champion and now a $46-a-week New Jersey state employee. Appearing before Senator Estes Kefauver's hearings on the ills of boxing, Williams complained that he, too, had been underpaid throughout his career (during which he grossed $1,000,000), never had got his cut of $40,000 for two big fights from Manager Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. What seemed to nag at Williams most was that he had turned down more than $180,000 in bribes to throw fights, including...
...high gold loss in permitting service men the luxury of the family life they are underpaid to protect diminishes in perspective when viewed alongside the conservative guesstimate of $60 million per month that flows into foreign tills by way of the million and a half American tourists abroad each year. For this gold loss, stay-at-home Americans are repaid with a horde of misinformation, snap judgments, color slides and miniature Tour Eiffels...