Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guys we know who enjoyed killing cats. She broke into tears." Her parents separated when she was in high school. In 1967, after meeting Manson, she rejected the "straight" world so suddenly that she left her car in a parking lot, quit her job without picking up her paycheck and went away with him. Now she, with others like her, is charged with murder...
...practice of paying lavish allowances began years ago with the oil companies. Then it was a way of inducing men to accept jobs in Africa and the Middle East. Today, the extras apply almost everywhere and sometimes add 50% to a paycheck. International Harvester pays its employees a bonus of as much as 20% to go abroad, and Pan American grants a flat $75 a month. General Motors expects its men to pay 15% of their salaries for rent, but the company defrays seven-eighths of anything above that level. Like many other corporations, G.M. also pays for the children...
Firefighters have been known to lose a two-thousand dollar paycheck in three nights of drinking and whoring in Fairbanks...
Uruguay's workers, who are used to winning paycheck increases every six months or so, violently protested against the wage decree. When the government work force joined in two strikes, Pacheco decided to make an example of traditionally lackadaisical clerks in the state-owned banks. Instead of being allowed to clock in at their jobs at noon, when their work day usually begins, they were ordered to take turns reporting to army garrisons for four hours a day of marching. Some also got trips to the army barber and showed up for their regular jobs with considerably shorter hair...
...heavy silence settled on Paris-Match. Staffers moved listlessly, speaking in low, conspiratorial whispers. An idle copy boy watched over the managing editor's office while its usual occupant, Andre Lacaze, appeared at the entrance to the building, waving an envelope. "There it is, pals, the final paycheck," he told his colleagues. "I'm all through after 20 years." Then he walked away...