Word: wages
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White House spokesmen later conceded that they expected no swift Soviet response to Carter's statement. His objective, they let it be known, was simply to get on the U.N. record a position that his Administration has always espoused: its eagerness to eliminate the means to wage nuclear war. Carter's audience applauded only once, when he reaffirmed that the U.S. "will not use nuclear weapons except in self-defense." The next day, Carter returned to the U.N. to join Ambassador Andrew Young in signing two international human-rights covenants, one covering civil and political rights, the other...
...born to chase the promise of America. He entered the world on the floor of a cold and drafty boxcar rattling across the continent of North America in January, 1889. His parents, penniless immigrants, were traveling to San Francisco, where the Atchison Railroad had promised his father a decent wage and a decent living. But while the railroad's promise proved hollow, the lie did not deter the father's son. Dan Lavette was too tough. By the time America's economic bubble burst in 1929, Lavette had dreamed, bluffed and borrowed his way to the top of a sprawling...
...will discuss "The Current Economic Predicament" at 8:30 p.m. in Emerson 305. If Thurow's name rings a bell, you may have taken Ec 10. Thurow was the one who talked about "job competition"--a scenario where jobs search for workers--as opposed to the standard theory of "wage competition" in which workers run around looking for jobs. Thurow's theory has numerous applications in the study of black-white income disparities, and explaining in general why some people have more money than others. This last is a topic that Thurow examined in his most recent book, "Generating Inequality...
...summer game has ended. It is October, and while the perennial champions--Cincinnati and Pittsburgh--and the new challengers--among them Chicago--have faltered, two teams have survived the 162-game schedule to earn the right to wage battle for the National League pennant...
Sirabella said 67 per cent of all union members are in grades one to five. Approximately half of these employees work part-time and all start at a minimum wage of $4.42 an hour, Stevens said...