Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...city after city, town after town, children are slipping into the work force to make up for a growing labor shortage, while the laws designed to protect them are widely flouted. In New York, it is the garment industry; in California, the fast-food restaurants; in Iowa, the farms; in Maryland, the door-to-door candy sellers. Violations of child-labor laws shot up from 8,877 in 1984 to a record 22,508 last year, as ever younger children worked ever longer hours at jobs no one else would take for the pay. Though the majority of underage workers...
Alexander adds many new details to the saga, revealing, for example, that Sukhreet's job at a massage parlor included an extra $15 for going topless. But her gift is to make sense of what is already known: how a daughter came to turn on her devoted mother, why a venerable judge would jeopardize her reputation for a $19,000-a-year job for her child, and how the most famous Miss America of them all turned out to be anything but our ideal...
...when the heat in old arenas like the Boston Garden can be stifling? Right again: so TV can have more potentially high-rated games. And if television didn't exactly create showboating antics like slam dunks in basketball and end-zone dances in football -- well, what better way to make the evening's sports-highlight reel...
...with damned ESPN," he told a campus newspaper. "This is absolutely ridiculous to put a college student through." Other Big Ten coaches are more sanguine about the trade-off. "When you talk about the dollars and the exposure," says Michigan State coach Jud Heathcoate, "I think we have to make some sacrifices in our schedule...
...University of Kansas. Harry Edwards, sports sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, sees TV as a major culprit in the corruption of sports. "The eyes of the athlete have shifted from what you can do to challenge yourself," he says, "to how much money you can make...