Word: waging
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...Cabinet Office report found that household sentiment swooned in December, and Japan's top three department stores reported declining sales in the run-up to the country's New Year holiday. While unemployment has declined from 5.4% in 2002 to 4.1% at the end of 2006, wages have gone nowhere. According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the average Japanese made $2,881 a month in 2002. For most of 2006, the average monthly wage was only $2,749. "The statistics say that the economy is in good shape, but people can't feel that," says...
...Detroit, but he also drew a surprising measure of white support in the Upper Peninsula, and in cities like Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, and Saginaw. Like Patrick and Obama, Jackson’s popularity was based on the broad appeal of his message, which focused on jobs, a higher minimum wage, education, housing, and day care for working women. These examples reveal that black candidates can draw political support from non-black voters if their political messages address the constituents’ basic concerns...
...generation that ends poverty in America. Every single person willing to work should be able to get job training that leads to a job, and earn a living wage that can pay the bills, and afford child care so their kids have a safe place to go when they work. Let's do this...
...professor will take lecture attendance using PRS clickers and ensure lecture participation using cattle prods.. 4) Upon closer inspection of the syllabus, you realize that you do not recognize the characters in which the syllabus is written. 5) On Friday morning, your professor announces his intention to wage a private war against grade inflation. 6) On Monday morning, your professor announces his intention to wage a private war against your GPA. 7) As you walk into section, you hear “Oh my God, it’s like a Phi Beta Kappa reunion in here...
...bloggers he hired.) The crowd at the Democratic National Committee winter meetings clapped continuously during Edwards's speech there, as he repeated his calls for his party to show "courage" in opposing the war. Labor leaders are very enthusiastic about his emphasis on reducing poverty and increasing the minimum wage. And he has strong poll numbers, coming either first or second in most surveys in Iowa...