Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America's drug problem begins in this urban ghetto. When children cannot fathom an escape from their horrible environment, they turn to drugs. When a minimum-wage job brings ridicule because it won't lead anywhere, they turn to drugs. As long as segregated, impoverished ghetto neighborhoods are shut off from the rest of society, children will turn to drugs...
...fusillade of partisan attacks: the President's efforts to redeem his campaign pledge to slash the tax rate on capital gains from 33% to 15%. Like Dukakis in last year's campaign, congressional Democrats lambaste the idea as an affront to fairness. "I'm not going to tell the wage earners in Chicago that they should pay a higher tax rate than stockbrokers," thunders House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. There is evidence to support this equity argument: currently, 70% of all capital gains are claimed by taxpayers with household incomes over $100,000 a year...
...studies for a notable career in baseball that culminated in a $300,000 announcing job with the New York Yankees. It is a pleasing fact that several other black candidates for the league presidency, including former Cincinnati second baseman Joe Morgan, were too prosperous in business to consider the wage. In fact, White is taking an estimated...
...commercials for Domino's Pizza, the chain's employees wage a never ending battle against the Noid, a gremlin who delays deliveries and carries a gun that can turn a pizza ice cold. Many viewers are amused by the Noid, Domino's says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel...
...other hand, Gorbachev makes about seven times the average Soviet wage. (George Bush, at $200,000, makes ten times the average annual American income.) And don't forget the perks: a limousine, a Moscow apartment, a dacha, hand-delivered groceries. Korotich also disclosed that Gorbachev donated $600,000 in foreign royalties from his book Perestroika, to the Communist Party. Are you listening, Jim Wright...