Word: wages
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...Father Henry is a shrimper whose feelings for his family are well disguised with verbal and physical abuse. His wife Lila despises his brutality and low status and dreams of moving up in Colleton society. Eldest Son Luke, the Rambo of the salt marshes, returns from Viet Nam to wage a one- man guerrilla war against the construction of plutonium production plants. Brother Tom is an ex-high school football coach struggling with the aftermath of a nervous breakdown and a failing marriage. His twin sister Savannah is a successful poet and, fortunately, a failed suicide...
Undaunted, Ruiz said he may wage a write-incampaign for the council. He said he already has acampaign manager and a slogan ("Please baby,please baby--baby--baby--please. Vote for RudyRuiz...
...ultraconservative Republicans with unremarkable first-term records, like Mack Mattingly of Georgia and Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. The latest polls show Mattingly leading his underfunded liberal rival, Congressman Wyche Fowler, by 18 points. The factious and disorganized Democratic Party in Alabama has been unable to help Congressman Richard Shelby wage an effective attack; he trails Denton by nearly 25 points...
...have refused to consider the four-and-two proposal. Harvard's stall tactics should come as no surprise; the University has a long history of failing to negotiate promptly or in good faith with its employees. In addition to stonewalling, Harvard negotiator Edward Powers has threatened to withdraw retroactive wage increases that are often granted employees working under an interim contract after a new contract is approved. The University seems determined to force the union to give into its demands...
...argues, all public-school teenage students should be compelled to take drug tests. (Du Pont did not go to public school.) The present welfare system is a failure and should be largely abolished. Government should offer extensive vocational training and temporary public jobs paying 90% of the minimum wage. All agricultural subsidies must be phased out over five years, after which market forces would govern farming. Any of these proposals would detonate controversy once the campaign is fully engaged. But Du Pont insists that he will lay out provocative ideas no matter which interest groups are offended...