PAGE 14 Iran's Poor Voted for Relief In Iran, with salaries averaging $200 a month, the populist president-elect campaigned on redistributing wealth, holding down prices and lifting salaries and aid for the poor.
One suggestion has been that national team players like Roberts, Halfpenny and Warburton should have dual contracts, with the Welsh Rugby Union lifting salaries to competitive levels.
In Japan Shinzo Abe has sworn to lift salaries, and cajoles and threatens Japanese bosses to deliver on his promise.The facts give such rhetoric resonance.
As an expanding local economy lifts salaries, housing prices grow because buyers have the money to pay for better properties.
The pay increases -- lifting the salaries of first-year associates at the nation's largest firms to $125,000, from $100,000 -- have drastically raised firms' costs, causing many to consider eliminating some practice areas or hiring less expensive outside lawyers to do more basic work.
Lifting the salary level alone will help many women earn a better wage.
Last year, when AmeriCredit's board approved a salary of $950,000 for Mr. Morris's successor, Daniel E. Berce, 52, it also granted Mr. Morris a $100,000 raise, lifting his salary as chairman to $900,000, according to a document filed last week.
The country's links with Europe have helped the Turkish economy -- but they have also pushed up wages, lifting the salary for Biesseci assembly-line workers to $675 a month, compared with $38 to $75 a month for a textile worker in China.
Instead of going toward health insurance premiums, the money could have lifted our salaries.
Despite waning tax collections, the Legislature voted overwhelmingly to lock in a package of teacher raises designed to lift average salaries to more than $41,000 by the 2005-2006 school year.
Although Apple and Foxconn agreed to lift workers' salaries, wages have been rising quickly.
