Word: faulkner
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...REAL victims of the pipeline may be the young Alaskans, fresh from high school. Bradley H. Faulkner '80, an Alaska resident, is one of several Harvard students who worked on the pipeline last year. "For someone in my situation, coming out of high school, the money is unparalleled, but once you've got it, it's like 'funny money' because you realize that you can buy just about anything that you have ever dreamed of buying. Anything," Faulkner said recently. He is fairly typical of the Alaskan youth, women as well as men, who upon high school graduation faced basically...
...pipeline has had a disintegrative effect on many families with members in some way involved with the project. Fathers with construction jobs are usually away nine months of each year. Faulkner said in the pipeline terminal city of Valdez, known to Alaskans as "Valdisease," about a third of the housewives prostitute themselves regularly, partly to keep up with the exorbitant prices that face them in the grocery market. Finally, many family structures are jarred by the abundance of high school age children making more money than their fathers...
...hell for a couple of months and with a couple thousand dollars in their pockets, just looking for a good time. There's good business all around, even for the police who charge several hundred dollars every time a guy gets thrown in the coop for getting too drunk," Faulkner added...
...When you talk politics in Alaska, you talk Teamsters," Faulkner said. The Teamsters membership in Alaska constitutes 10 per cent of the registered voting population in the state. Controlling the material supply line to the construction sites, and a large portion of the flow of consumer goods to Alaskan residents, the Teamsters occupy a bottleneck that affords them substantial political clout. "What they say, goes," Faulkner added...
Well-Read. "Anyone who underestimates Billy," Jimmy Carter said last week, "is making a serious mistake." Billy lasted less than a year at Emory University. But he reads four Georgia papers each day, as well as three books a week (Faulkner is a favorite). Says Jimmy: "Billy's a much better-read person than...