Word: wage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sponsored by a group called the Fair Wage Commission, Question Two asks voters whether the 74-year-old Prevailing Wage Law should be repealed...
Virginia Buckingham, issues director for the Fair Wage Commission, said the current law forces Massachusetts to pay construction workers up to $25 per hour while private companies have more freedom to choose pay rates. She said the state is wasting money by doing...
Meanwhile, Thompson said Graham's plans were her business, but added that none of the presidential nominees ran on stickers against Michael Dukakis, nor would Dukakis wage a sticker campaign against George Bush if he lost in November...
...officials were honored with such prestigious decorations as the Order of Lenin. By contrast, sporting life in the U.S. centers on professional teams, and the rewards are commensurate: Edwin Moses, the greatest hurdler who ever lived, earns through fees and endorsements about $500,000 a year, roughly the wage of a journeyman major-league baseball player. Football drains away sprinters to become pass catchers and weight throwers to play as linemen or on defense: six days after he won the 1984 Olympic silver medal in the shot put, Michael Carter was a nose tackle appearing in his first exhibition game...
...beyond that there is no consensus. It is true that many panhandlers do not want to work and disdain whatever minimum-wage jobs are available. "There are charities and agencies that will take care of them," says Jennifer Hassan of the Red Cross. "Yet most won't even go near these organizations because they know they have no excuse for not working." But others are disabled and cannot work; still others are eager to carry a bag, wash a window, weed a yard, pump some gas, for whatever they can earn. William Harris, 50, works the parking...