Word: earning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each 75 cents issue sold, the salesperson keeps 55 cents, including a nickel that goes into a mandatory savings plan that can be used only to obtain an apartment. Some vendors earn more than $200 a week. After selling 500 papers, the salespeople win a bonus: a winter coat...
Keeping house and caring for the kids fills a woman's day -- and more. But what if she had to earn a living too? Your wife will never have to face this double duty if you protect yourself...
...changing demands of their personal lives? Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett foresees a "sequencing" pattern in which dual-career couples would alternate the times in which they focus heavily on their work. A mother or father might be intensely involved in a project for a period of time and thereby earn credits for time off to spend with the family during a slower period. To make such a scenario possible, Hewlett points out, the wage gap would have to close. Otherwise the woman's career, being less lucrative, would always seem the more expendable...
Matters were more complicated for the Senate, whose members earn the same $89,500 salary as Representatives but rake in more from speaking fees. They were able to bury the plan by speaking up for reform: first they added a provision to prohibit retired congressional and Executive Branch employees from lobbying their former colleagues for one year. Then they left the pay- for-ethics package in place for the House (along with the raises for judges and bureaucrats), but rejected it for themselves. At week's end, after three attempts by Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina to scuttle...
...earn $60 million in your first four weeks, and everybody has an explanation for your success. As the surprise movie hit of the fall season, Tri-Star's baby-love comedy Look Who's Talking has inspired plenty of retrospective wisdom. It came out at the right time of year, when its only competition was heavy dramas. It hits yuppie moviegoers where they live: in the narrow margin between careers and parenthood. It carries echoes of When Harry Met Sally in the loving friendship of a thirtysomething mom (Kirstie Alley) and the cabdriver (John Travolta) who moonlights as baby-sitter...