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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...unmarried ones as well. A senior professor at my university, whose wife or husband teaches school at Amherst High School, probably does [pay scales being lower at Umps]. Newly graduated lawyers who bag those tasty associateships in Wall Street firms just about make it on the day they start to work. Every member of Congress just about makes it without any help from extra income or spouses, before the enormous pay raise they have just voted themselves. Indeed, pretty much everyone you are likely to know, in the circles in which you travel, is in that magic 5 percent. That...
...more seemly tone -- restrained, conciliatory, even a tad remorseful about the earlier chest pounding. Legal experts warned that official American name calling might jeopardize the prosecution's case against Manuel Noriega. But there was another reason for George Bush's eagerness to put away the big stick and start talking softly again. He believes in that AT&T advertising slogan, "Reach out and touch someone" -- not with the 82nd Airborne but with a telephone call. Starting in the early hours of Operation Just Cause, he talked to more than a dozen foreign leaders, many of them in Latin America. They...
...room resort, the largest hotel in the Caribbean, do not expect to rent the Galactica Suite every night. They may allow some high- rolling gamblers to stay there for free. Smaller-time players will have to settle for the resort's more conventional rooms, which start at $175 a night...
...Campeau's troubles cause more suppliers to defect. Says Gillian's Levy: "All I care about now is for the situation to be resolved as soon as possible, or Federated will no longer be viable. The longer they procrastinate, the longer they go without merchandise. Then customers will start going to other stores, and Federated will lose them forever...
...Kashmir, India's beautiful high mountain valley that is home to 4.6 million people, the vast majority of them Muslims. Passionate young men who want an independent Kashmir or union with neighboring Pakistan call for a general strike and demonstrations. The police in turn impose a curfew. Protesters start throwing stones, and frightened police respond with rifles. Last week 16 unarmed civilians died that way, while militants killed three policemen...