Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even at today's comparatively mild pace of about 5%. Between 1980 and June of this year, for example, the average weekly earnings for U.S. workers increased from $235 a week to $309. But after adjustment for inflation, including a dramatic peak at the beginning of the 1980s, that paycheck actually slid backward over those years, to $227. The rise in productivity among U.S. manufacturing industries, however, was a brisk 4% each year from 1981 to 1985. During most of the previous decade, this measure of output per worker had increased only 1.2% annually. In fact, last year...
Tudor has found the inner reserves to face acting, insecurity and rejection for the next two years. She comes from a family that is "very concerned with making sure you're secure. They always like to make sure you're doing something that will have a paycheck, and I think I started to fall into that pattern." But she was driven to try acting for at least a while, because it might be her last chance...
...going many students go through college anxious about the future rather than confident enough about it to enjoy the present. After graduation they stampede into professions and professional schools without first taking time to find--or create--jobs that will give them more satisfaction than just a big paycheck...
...glamour and a taste of the theater life, the theatrical types say they signed on with the bus-and- truck mainly for the money. The members of the company all collect a per diem expense, and the idea is to live on the per diem and stash the paycheck for when they get back to New York. "You need a nest egg in this business," says Bruce Daniels, a lead, "so you can survive while you're out trying to get . . ." -- his voice deepens and Tivoli lights blink on in his eyes -- "that starring role." Meanwhile, they double...
...land he proudly drives an old rusted $500 Ford LTD. "Janis hates it," he said, coming aboard. "I had only had little European cars. I very much wanted a big, stupid machine." This was on a Friday, and Michel did a very American thing. He handed his wife his paycheck and got himself a beer...