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Example sentences for: wages

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The piece argues that the operation is deviously designed to lower wages.
This is important because in recent years the wages of college-educated workers have grown much faster than the wages of high-school-educated workers.
And although the wages of nonsupervisory workers in retail have been and still are quite low,9 the compensation system for buyers provided substantial rewards for favorable results.
The NYT lead reports that on Sunday, the night before his second attempt to win confirmation as PM from the Russian parliament, Chernomyrdin used his TV address to defend and further explain the economic platform he rolled out last week: printing billions of rubles now to pay for years of soldiers', civil servants' and defense workers' back wages and pensions and to save banks, and cutting the profits tax by 50 percent and then in just a few months, strictly controlling the currency, collecting taxes and cutting government spending.
The second-place ad-- One Night Stand, Two Weeks Later --evokes a 1940s black-and-white Hollywood melodrama about the wages of illicit love.