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...flashy?we buy property and we maintain it, and it appreciates. That's what America is all about." When asked if she was being held to a double standard because of her sex, she did not rise to the bait. Nor at other opportunities did she hide her feminism. When she went to a bank to finance her first House campaign in 1978, Ferraro revealed, she was aghast to learn she needed Zaccaro to co-sign for a loan. In order to establish her technical financial autonomy and thus avoid such humiliations, Zaccaro and she began filing separate tax returns...
...could not predict how she would react to heavy pressure on the financial disclosure issue. They also insist that Mondale felt confident such pressure would prove unnecessary: he had seen both Ferraro's and Zaccaro's tax returns, was convinced that the couple had nothing damaging to hide, and trusted they would see it that way too. In the end he proved to be right, but only after prolonged anxiety. For all the aplomb that she demonstrated at her press conference, Ferraro had also shown her inexperience as a national candidate; she seemed initially to have little idea...
Clearly, the release of the couple's individual tax returns squelched any suspicion that Zaccaro might have been trying to hide embarrassingly small payments to Uncle Sam. Over the past five years, he and his wife paid more than the average person does in their respective tax brackets, according to IRS statistics. This was true of Ferraro in each of the five years in which they filed separately. It was true of Zaccaro, whose income varied more sharply from year to year, in three of the five years. By filing separately, they paid about $6,000 more over...
...economics." Nevada Senator and Reagan Friend Paul Laxalt gives him credit for "making significant progress as the ultimate consummate good soldier." But even though Bush has lived in Texas far longer than in his native Connecticut, he cannot escape his Andover-Yale-Skull-and-Bones heritage, nor can he hide his gee-whiz preppie manner. As Laxalt says, "Many conservatives feel that anyone who has been near an Ivy League school is suspect...
Elsewhere, members of both sexes welcomed the vote. In fact, some Jaycees chapters have admitted women for several years. But they have had to hide this fact from the national organization by listing initials rather than first names on their membership rolls...