Word: worker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement, he and and several students working for worker rights groups in New York City planned the conference to unite college movements and give students a strong voice in discussions with...
...that doesn't mean that American society is supporting them much in their choices, and this is where the pseudo-feminists of today could be of help. The average female worker in America still earns just 76[cents] for every dollar a man earns, up 17[cents] from the '70s but still no cause for rejoicing. And for most women, the glass ceiling is as impenetrable as ever. There are only two female CEOs at FORTUNE 500 companies, and just 10% of corporate officers are women. Day care, a top priority for both middle-class women and less fortunate mothers...
Zhong Qizhi is going to make it, whatever the cost. "I am the son of a farmer and a factory worker," he says. "It was impossible for me to get help from anyone." So the 31-year-old from Chengdu taught himself English while working as an elementary school teacher, went off to run a travel agency in Tibet for four years, then set up a computer store in the southern city of Kunming. In 1996 he passed a university entrance exam to study international finance and economics. He paid for his sister to study Japanese; she now works...
...central figure in High Art is Syd (Radha Mitchell), a newly-promoted assistant editor at a modish New York photography magazine called *Frame*. Syd is a hard worker and has a keen eye, but because her superiors have yet to fill the intern position she vacated for her editorship, she is currently working absurd hours trying to do both jobs. Her boyfriend Steve (Gabriel Mann) laments what he considers her exploitation by the *Frame* staff, but Syd, confident that her dedication will push her up through the editorial ranks, has no complaints. "I'm trying to stick...
...workers that is a bad news-good news forecast. Unemployment will rise from the 28-year low of 4.3%, touched in April, to perhaps 5% next year. But employers will still be beating the bushes for every worker they can find, if a bit less feverishly than today. And wages will be pushed up faster than prices...