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waging

verb as in carry on

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As productivity has increased, pay has stayed very low, and again, our federal minimum wage is well below where it would have been if it kept up with inflation and very far where it would have been if it kept up with productivity growth.

The first huge decoupling was between productivity and workers’ wages, where productivity continued to go up, but wages remained flat.

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Lawsuit alleges wage theft by Mike Isabella at one of his shuttered restaurants

The group previously called Prop 22 a “corporate power grab,” keeping workers from health care, fair wages, and workers compensation.

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While advocates have argued that the higher minimum wage would lift hundreds of thousands of Floridians out of poverty and allow them to pump more money into the economy, industry groups vociferously opposed the wage hike.

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Indeed, more than 55,000 Pakistani troops are in Baluchistan waging a war of their own.

MIAMI — Fidel Castro seized power in January 1959 after waging a guerilla war against then-dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Attkisson, meanwhile, has been fighting the same uphill battle that other investigative reporters are waging.

Hoge joined in, waging a proxy battle against a liberal blogger who accused Walker et al. of being scammers.

Paul said he would have voted against using force in Syria, and claimed Obama was unconstitutionally waging attacks.

What means had the Company of waging such a war, and what chance of achieving such a triumph?

The contest now waging in Spain was but a portion of that great conflict which was going on elsewhere throughout the world.

What he wanted was to gain time, and perpetuate the war, even though waging an unequal contest.

It was a world-wide conspiracy—it was that very class-war which the established order was waging upon these men and their ideas!

He has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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