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...defied Arab strikes and army curfews as he made the eight-mile trip from the Dehaishe refugee camp near Bethlehem to Jerusalem, where he put in nine-hour days as a plasterer for an Israeli construction firm. After nine years on the job, his wage had risen to nearly $3 an hour, just enough to support his wife and five children...
...reason for the spread of salmonella, ironically, is Americans' determination to guard their health. In the quest to keep cholesterol levels down, people are turning more often to low-fat poultry: annual per capita consumption of chicken alone has risen from 40 lbs. in 1970 to more than 70 lbs. this year. Unfortunately, mass-production techniques make many poultry farms and plants prime breeding grounds for salmonella. Different strains of the bacteria can contaminate eggs as well as meat. (Raw cow's milk can also be tainted, but beef is less of a problem than poultry because the slaughtering process...
...combined support for the other four presidential campaigners had also risen -- from 5% to 14% in less than a month -- and polls showed that nearly one-third of the electorate was undecided. "It is very difficult to predict the outcome," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "All that seems certain is that no candidate will get the 50% required for a first-round victory...
...jumped 56% and college tuitions have rocketed 87.9% in real dollars. Joseph Minarik, executive director of the congressional Joint Economic Committee estimates that the typical 30-year-old man buying a median-priced home in 1973 incurred carrying costs equal to 21% of his income. By 1987 this had risen to 40%. For the first time since World War II, home ownership among young families is declining. Complains Karen, a 26-year-old housewife in the Chicago area: "You either buy a home, both of you work and your kids suffer, or one of you works and you live...
Faster and faster they go, harder and harder they push, but like hamsters on a wheel, America's working families are stuck at the bottom. Clobbered on two fronts, they must work twice as hard to stay even. On the income side, wages have gone down while taxes have risen. On the expenditure side, living costs have soared. Homes, health insurance, college education -- the basic ingredients of the American Dream -- are increasingly out of reach...