Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate vote came eight days after President Bush and congressional Democrats agreed on the plan to boost the minimum wage by 45 cents next April 1 and another 45 cents a year later...
WASHINGTON--The Senate gave final passage yesterday to legislation to raise the hourly minimum wage to $4.25 by April 1991, the first increase in the floor wage since...
...measure, passed overwhelmingly by the House last week, also creates a new, subminimum wage that could be paid to teen-agers for their first three months in the work force and up to three months more for those in certified training or education programs...
Bush's signature will not only trigger the first increase in the minimum wage in nearly a decade but also will end a bitter stalemate between congressional Democrats and successive Republican administrations over the politically charged issue...
...served -- those who had died and those who had come home to anything but a hero's welcome. Lin was proud of her achievement, yet disillusioned by the negative reactions her design had initially elicited ("a black gash of shame," to cite one), by the battles she had to wage to keep the "additions" of a flag and statue far away from the memorial, and by the fact that even her Chinese heritage was maligned. Young (she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale when her design was chosen), by her own admission naive, and secretly terrified that perhaps...