Word: workers
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...fairly steady in real dollars until the 1970s. But under new tax policies, the 1980s saw the rise of stock options. Intended to tie executive pay to performance, they offered the potential for huge riches with little downside, encouraging risk-taking. In 1991, CEOs earned 140 times the average worker's pay. A 1993 attempt to cap compensation merely shifted more pay into options. By 2007 the median S&P 500 CEO earned in three hours what a minimum-wage worker pulled down in a year. And Great Recession or no, 2009 looks like more of the same...
...great competitor,” Saretsky said. “He had to dig deep and battle, and the race was won up cemetery hill. It was kind of fitting to have it come down to the most grueling part of the course, because he is such a hard worker...
...local celebrity in “All Saints Day,” allowing them to pick off their targets with unusual ease. As a result, the plot manages to coast along with nary a conflict. En route to the states, they encounter Romeo (Clifton Collins, Jr.), a raucous co-worker with loose ties to the underworld, who risks life and limb to join the Saints crew, perhaps intuiting the sidekick position left vacant by Rocco’s death in the first film. Stateside, the Saints’ fame precedes them, and they are immediately offered a secret hideout...
...instead of staying up for hours reading over your coursepack and memorizing countless dates, try hanging around the mill’s old doorways. You might just catch a glimpse of an ancient worker in authentic Victorian garb. If, on the other hand, you find yourself up at 8 a.m. staring at a blank wall, FM does not take responsibility for any failed midterms, gaping professors, or general humiliation...
...which all Republicans - moderate and conservative - can agree. For example, Cantor notes that state unemployment burdens are expected to double from $30 billion in 2009 to more than $60 billion in 2012, resulting in what he says will be a doubling of business taxes from $250 to $500 per worker per year by 2012. "Eric's correct, in my opinion, to place an emphasis on trying to make our nation more competitive and prop up the private market - a place which has been kind of under assault the last year or so," says John Feehery, a GOP strategist and former...