Word: wage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listens to the mantra of the student-driven Living Wage Campaign, Harvard is sitting on a piggy bank of wealth that its administrators don't want to share with its lowly paid workers...
Slowly, thorny issues were resolved. The wage structure--which had rewarded long-time guards--was changed so that newer guards often got a wage boost, the official said...
...resolved by flipping quarters into cups, and if by reaching into our pockets and dropping those few coins we feel satisfied with ourselves and our good deed for the day rather than brimming with rage that our society of such affluence does not provide the affordable housing, living wage jobs, and basic medical services that all people, both housed and unhoused, so desperately needed; if that smugness allows us to feel complacent in our sheltered, privileged bubble and gives us the audacity to blame the poor not only for their own condition, but for the corruption of our general values...
...like the riddle of the Sphinx, an ordeal by questions that can make further progress on the road of life very iffy. Right answers put you on your way to Prestige U. The wrong ones could give you a lifelong personal stake in the debate over the minimum wage. In The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 406 pages; $27), Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup d'etat" that...
...senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "There?s an inexorable trend toward better working conditions in factories abroad. It?s part and parcel of the globalization process." These days, Baumohl explains, when a U.S.-based company sends manufacturing contracts abroad, it is expected, and sometimes required, to pay a reasonable wage for services rendered. In countries highly dependent on foreign contracts, an increase in manufacturing-job salaries means a considerable upswing in the national standard of living. Rising wages in foreign countries are good news to U.S. labor interests as well, says Baumohl. Immigrant workers, such as the factory employees...