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...sector that year took about $20,000. Those heading to government or public service were paid between $10,000 and $14,000, according to Martha P. Leape, director of OCS-OCL. That is why a third of the government, history, and social studies concentrators go into law, and one-tenth go into government. That is why a friend five years out of school just this fall took the LSATs, and why he urged me to do so now, because I would "end up taking them anyway...
...five major sponsors (Miller beer, Sasson clothes, Isuzu Motors, Bristol-Myers and Chock Full O' Nuts coffee) plus gate and television receipts from its 65-game exhibition tour; one televised match with the Soviet All-Stars in Lake Placid provided $500,000 of the $1.3 million budget, about a tenth of which is funded by the U.S. Olympic Committee. The ski team has 23 sponsors (including Oscar de la Renta, Texas Instruments, Subaru) and a $4.5 million budget. The "amateur" skiers can strike rich endorsement deals as long as the money is paid through the team "for expenses...
...m.p.h.) after an advertising transaction disqualified him from amateur competition. All family dreams were eventually handed down to Tamara. "I am out there trying to win, but I'm mostly trying to stay happy," she says, seeming even younger than 21. "When racing, I feel confident of every tenth of a second, of every curve and every rise...
...year 1983 marked the tenth anniversary of the U.S. all-volunteer force. Americans expect national pride to draw enough youngsters into service, but such volunteerism is not universal. Elsewhere, including nearly all of Europe, conscription is the rule. In the U.S., about 6,000 new recruits, 600 of them women, are signing up every week. High unemployment is one prod. But there is another, probably more important reason: a Pentagon recruitment official calls it "a renewed spirit of patriotism...
...nation's school systems. Many poorly financed districts in the state have tiny, rundown schoolhouses staffed by some of the lowest-paid teachers in the country. Consider, for example, the Thornton school district (total enrollment: 300), located in the timber country of southern Arkansas. The last time its tenth-graders took the basic skills test they placed in the bottom 12% of national scores. The average teacher's salary is only $11,663, and not one teacher is certified to teach physics, foreign languages or art. Says Kai Erickson, executive secretary of the Arkansas Education Association (A.E.A.): "Education...