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Our own little Gaza Strip, and the Halloween (Gas) Mask is taken to task.

"...they pass them on in the form of reduced wages paid to their employees or as higher prices for..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column

Naked City

News Shorts

"...by the end of this month, and freeze the wages (i.e., no raises) of remaining employees for one year...."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Hightower Lowdown

The media fails to report Alan Greenspan's pro-corporate zealotry; greedy doctors make for bad medicine; and subliminal advertising makes its way into books.

"...tenure, Greenspan has routinely intervened to hold down the wages of working-class Americans -- wages that are lower today..."

Oct. 5, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Economics From the Bottom Up

A profile of Accion Texas, CDC, and other microlenders

"...past decade, a full 50% of the area's private-sector wages went to the most affluent 20% of the population,..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Postmarks

Everybody talk about: pop music, aquifer protection, police presence, even doggie do and doggie don't.

"...many poor working Texans had to choose between missing work/wages or trekking to a local food stamp office to..."

May 18, 2001 Column

Cinema of the Americas

A Festival of Latino Films Showcases New Visions of an Old and Resurging Culture

"...machismo, the Catholic church's opposition to birth control, meager wages earned in horrid maquiladoras. The problem for emerging directors..."

April 13, 2001 Screens Feature by David Garza

Will the Charges Stick?

The National Labor Relations Board issues a formal complaint against Van Os and Associates

"...staffers named in the NLRB case first protested their wages, hours, and working conditions in April of last year,..."

April 6, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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Global Warming, Public Schools, and Jazz a la Zorn.

"...efforts of Americans to gain equality, fairness, and better wages. While supposedly helping a few people, she has denied..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Defending the death penalty, the new Gov, the schools, and all that Jazz.

"...efforts of Americans to gain equality, fairness, and better wages. While supposedly helping a few people, she has denied..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

Hightower on clean elections, corporate genetic research, and living wage legislation

"...purposes, what's to prevent another company from looting yours?The Wages of Poverty Here's a novel concept: If you work..."

Dec. 22, 2000 News Column by Jim Hightower

Vertical Limit

"...Tunney, Bill Paxton and Chris O'Donnell. Cliffhanger meets The Wages of Fear meets K2 may have sounded good at..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...4. Wages of Sin by Suzy Spencer..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Column

The Hightower Report

Joeseph Lieberman's corporate contributors, guacamole factories in Mexico, Starbucks bans local newspapers, pesticides in schools.

"...NAFTA to move U.S. guacamole-making to Mexico, paying poverty-level wages there to mass-produce what amounts to a sort of..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Column

Postmarks

The Chronicle endorsements (or lack thereof) under fire.

"...The Wages of Watson..."

May 5, 2000 Column

Salt of the Earth

Local activists remember Cesar Chavez on the seventh anniversary of his death.

"...-- had been walking the picket line for higher wages. The strike began in 1968 and lasted nearly three..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Paul Ciavarri

Postmarks

Transportation and trash are heavy on the minds of readers this week.

"...Living With Living Wages..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Column

Postmarks

City council elections must be coming up soon...

"...wage the City Council faces a difficult choice: leave wages low and let the underclass grow, or raise wages..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Column

Postmarks

Hey, who put a vegetarian in my aquifer?

"...a 35% decline in the buying power of Mexican wages since 1994 indicated that the peso was not overhauled...."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column

The Profit Motive

Activists oppose World Trade Organization

"...has not created 200,000 new jobs per year, raised wages in Mexico, nurtured environmental clean-up along the border, or..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Feature by Cheryl Bishop

Dreaming ART

This year in Austin, autumn brings a Spring Storm, and with it Actors Repertory of Texas, the realization of the city's long-cherished dream of a locally based professional theatre company.

"...of it to support major production values and union wages over the long haul. But even when the failure..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

What does this so-called "boom" mean to most Americans?

"...bit worse than 10 years ago -- inflation-adjusted hourly wages of middle-wage men [have been] 1.8% lower in 1999..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

"...MGM's old studio numbers -- as the U.S. military wages war on the Canucks, all in the name of..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Apocalypse Now and Again

"...commonest greetings, even "Please pass the salt." Because our wages paid for the weapons, our votes elected the leaders,..."

April 16, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...would be "penny-ante stuff" against the forces of low wages abroad and the growth of a service economy that..."

April 16, 1999 News Feature

Postmarks

Plan for People, Not Cars

"...of the university newspaper last week suggesting that the wages of the university's front line staff were subject to..."

March 26, 1999 Column

Lean and Mean?

"...required to meet the recommendations would probably require increased wages for DHS eligibility workers, who earn on average about..."

March 19, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Postmarks

"...of the university newspaper last week suggesting that the wages of the university's front line staff were subject to..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk

"...the Sixth Street corridor Saturday calling for fair minimum wages in order to get off the streets. Led by..."

Jan. 22, 1999 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...The fair-wages campaign, fair staff retirement plans, staff representation on UT..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature

The Hanging Garden

"...her white gown as she curses, swigs beer, and wages constant battle with her ungainly bridal train. Tomboy sister..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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