We need to do the same, especially at this time of stagnating wages and insufficient job creation.

Foreign Investment Grows For the moment, Government officials believe they can weather the criticism, confident that Mr. Perez will leave office in February 1994 at a time of full employment and rising wages.

And do the growing numbers of women in the work force mark the American family's effort to stay afloat in a time of falling wages - or the professional liberation of millions of women?

At a time of stagnant wages and a weak labor market - when workers need more security, not less - fewer people are likely to receive overtime pay when they put in more than 40 hours a week on the job.

He points to increasing inequality at a time of stagnating wages in his new book, "The New Dollars and Dreams" (Russell Sage Foundation, 1998).

In a time of economic recession and falling wages, as the result of World War I, it was more intent on defending past achievements, rather than starting risky struggles.

Over the last five years, housing costs have increased more than three times that of wages.

At times of high wages or low food prices, out-workers could opt for more leisure, but in times of slack trade they might well find themselves unable to get enough work to compensate for falling rates.

The inflation alone from propping up those asset classes is killing ordinary people at a time of rising unemployment and stagnating wages.

While some yearn for a return to the times of fixed wages and cheap bread and vodka, a new study shows most Russians are better off now than in 1991.