Word: upper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among others, Cabinet members (from $88,800 to $160,000) and Congressmen (from $77,400 to $135,000). The proposed raises, argued the commission, will reverse a 17-year, 41% decline in federal employees' purchasing power and make Government service more attractive. Reagan is expected to scale down the upper pay levels to around $100,000 before sending them on to Congress. Grumbled Consumer Activist Ralph Nader: "Nothing is so absurd as the assertion that these officials can't get by on pay and benefits equal to five times the income of the average American worker...
This faction of the party blindly follows a strict ideological line. It also contains a "populist" element that revels in bringing political hacks to the upper reaches of government. Time was when the Republican Party stood for integrity, even if it did not stand for a progressive or caring government, but now no longer...
...team needs a lot of help in the lower weights now," Harvard Coach Jim Peckham said. "In the last 16 matches we've only won two of those [in the lower weight classes]. In the upper weights where our strength lies, there are all seniors and juniors. If we don't get a good recruiting system going, it might be a while before we see sunshine...
...facade of the Paris Opera). It finishes in a pair of windowless double-cube towers, containing smaller galleries, set against the glass end wall. Inside the terraces, left and right, are enclosed galleries. On top of these are two smaller "streets" for sculpture, and off those, on the upper level, more galleries for painting and decorative arts. This axiality was compared, by critics who saw it in the model or not at all, to the Maginot Line or perhaps the Valley of the Kings -- a set for an Italian production of Aida. Not so: it mediates beautifully between the almost...
...fact, Aulenti has done more than collaborate. Both on the ground floor and in the upper galleries, she has set up a constant dialogue of detail between her building and Laloux's. The limestone screens on which major paintings hang, inserted into Laloux's iron arches, have segments cut out of them through which one glimpses vistas of the original building. Laloux's space is "quoted" by breaches, angles, slippages, unexpected openings; no room is wholly enclosed, yet the effect is never choppy or distracting. Its essential medium always is light. Orsay is theatrical only at one point, where...