Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that the President of the United States will act in the present framework of international deliberations with the same wisdom, good judgment and full sense of right and honor he has always displayed," wrote Case. "The President of the United States has a right and obligation to wage peace as well as to wage war . . . We now support the President's efforts . . . We know he will carry them forward with candor and without the sacrifice of this nation's most solemn obligations...
...college, five years of full-time teaching) she earns only slightly more than half the pay of her full-time colleagues. Moreover, no matter what her qualifications, her average day's pay stays the same: $12.21. After deductions (income tax, lunch, carfare), it drops to $8.71-about the wage paid for domestic help in many U.S. cities...
Referring to the U.A.W.'s threat to strike, if necessary, to get some form of guaranteed annual wage in current negotiations, Ford said: "Today, both management and workers know that a major strike could dump the applecart of our present and prospective high prosperity-and nobody wants that. Ford Motor Co.'s management has every determination to arrive at a fair agreement in the best interests of our employees, our company, the automobile industry and the public at large. We believe our employees are realistic and sensible people, and just as eager as we are for the continuation...
...even though he will be working for an opposition paper. Lichty wants to stay near the newsroom he knows because he likes to keep his lampoonery of everyday situations tied firmly to the news. Reported the assistant to a corporation president in one recent Lichty cartoon: "A guaranteed annual wage, a guaranteed annual bonus, a guaranteed pension plan is fine with the employees, chief. Except they would like a guarantee you won't go broke." Lichty's one-panel situations take place everywhere, from the home (wife to husband: "I cook, wash dishes, keep house day after...
...unbelievable squalor of farm workers blights rural areas in a broad sweep from the Central Valley of California into the Deep South. While prosperous cotton farmers collect subsidies on their surplus fibre, they pay a wages must include these exempted workers, if their lofty statements have any foundation in principle. And with exemptions erased, Congress should vote wage floors that reflect the progress, rather than the inflation, of the national economy...