Word: waging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When the Governator, furious that the state's congress can't pass a budget (he's paying state workers minimum wage until one is passed) chastised Democrats for partying while Sacramento burns, the Dems had to give up their hotel rooms or look like lazy, selfish pols. Personally, I'd go for lazy, selfish pols and see Death Cab for Cutie on Wednesday with emcee Sarah Silverman, but then again, I wouldn't want to live in Sacramento and argue about budgets...
...Griffith, the seminal creator of early Corman monsterpieces, from It Conquered the World to The Little Shop of Horrors. As has happened in other Corman remakes, like Little Shop of Horrors, the original writers and director receive no screen credit on the new Death Race; Corman considered them mere wage slaves in his cinematic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...
...great things and trigger lasting change. But let's not forget that our elected representatives must be the ones held primarily responsible for protecting the poor. The mandate of a corporation can never be as binding as that of the state. Since the government must set a minimum wage for justice's sake, perhaps it can set maximums for corporate profits or individual salaries and offer incentives for the rich to give back. Ralph Scheidler, Fort Fairfield, Maine...
...voters. And then, in the general election, Kerry kept repeating the word strength rather than demonstrating it. Clearly, Obama's consultants have given him similar advice, that he was on the short end of a passion gap - that it was time for emo. A day earlier, he had said wage disparities between genders made his "blood boil...
...Another troubling finding: some 70% of survey respondents said they didn't consider what a student's potential post-graduate income would be. This is bad news for today's college students, who graduate with an average of some $9,000 in credit card debt, which will cost young wage earners more the longer it takes to pay back. Aggressive on-campus marketing by credit card companies "equates signing up for a new card to impulse shopping," says PIRG spokesman Ed Mierzwinski. "No one tells students that if they don't buy off the balance each month, the price...