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...incentive. A Miami dealer who goes by the name "Top Dog" told TIME he obtains MDMA test kits from a connection on the police force. "If [the pills] are no good," he says, customers "won't want to buy from you anymore." It's business sense: Top Dog can earn $300,000 a year on e sales...
They may spend as much as 60 hours a week creating lesson plans, teaching, advising students, grading, supervising extracurricular activities and meeting with colleagues and parents, yet teachers may earn 25% to 40% less than other white-collar professionals. While Frederica Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in a Bronx, N.Y., school district, she is aware of the price she paid for leaving American Express in 1992. "It has taken me eight years," she reports, "to catch up to the $52,000 I was making as a financial planner...
That's why you might consider selling some stocks to pay down debt. The stocks you keep should be diversified but tilted away from high-risk tech issues and toward reliable blue chips that earn good money in any economy. Food and drug stocks are examples. Beaten down cyclical stocks like airlines and advertising could run while rates are rising--so long as we don't fall into recession. Financial stocks will perk up as the rate increases come...
...alternative to the elite's picked candidates. Unless Bush makes a credible commitment to campaign finance reform and the other reform causes that McCain championed, his "reformer with results" label will ring hollow. Even though Bush has gained McCain's endorsement, he will have to work harder to earn the endorsement of McCain's supporters...
...real victim, ironically, is the candidate, who is denied a mandate. Ronald Reagan fuzzed many details when he ran for President; and he was a tad optimistic about being able to slash taxes and raise defense spending and balance the budget at the same time. But he did earn a mandate for lowering tax rates. That's one reason he was able to persuade Democrats in Congress to pass his supply-side cuts. Portraying himself as more like Reagan than his father, Bush is after the mandate mantle. That may prove fatal; but if he wins, it will prove empowering...