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Senior citizens deeply resent critics who seem to begrudge them their independence or imply that anyone ever got rich on a $500-a-month check. Many retirees worked hard, lived frugally and saved carefully to guard against the nightmare of a destitute old age. And while it is true the elderly consume roughly a third of the nation's medical resources, Medicare cannot begin to cover all the costs of a long illness. Already senior citizens pay three times as much out of their own pockets for health care as the young do. They view their benefits as a right...
Last week the campaign denied any connection with the hapless caper. Gephardt Spokesman Don Foley said Dinsmore was an independent consultant, not a full-time campaign official. "Dinsmore was doing this on his own," insisted Foley. As for Dinsmore's $1,200-a-month stipend in September and October and a lofty title engraved on business cards, Foley replied, "We're going to take his business cards back...
...boozy London-expatriate reporter for Manhattan's British-owned tabloid the City Light, is a major contribution to the literature of journalistic sleaze. Lawrence Kramer, an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, exudes the resentment of a young man who has to live in a small, narrow, $888-a-month apartment ("a slot") with his wife, new baby and nurse (paid for by his mother-in-law). The underclass is represented mainly by ghetto felons: armed robbers who list their occupations as "security guards" and young drug pushers who have mastered "the Pimp Roll," a swaggering gait not uncommon...
...most revered economic leader of his era, and yet at times he stirred fire storms of public protest. He had profound impact on a $4.3 trillion economy but lived in a tiny $500-a-month apartment furnished with castoffs. He ran his agency in a notably serene and straightforward style, and still his mystique grew so potent that his every move sent global financial markets into spasmodic guessing games about what he was thinking. He towered physically above his colleagues, yet instead of lording over them and issuing orders in his basso profundo voice, he preferred to lean back...
...Mart now has tremendous momentum, but the founder is still a prime force. The son of an Oklahoma farm-mortgage broker, Walton earned an economics degree from the University of Missouri and joined J.C. Penney in 1940 as an $85-a-month trainee. After serving in the Army, he pooled his savings and borrowed $25,000 to buy a Ben Franklin store in Newport, Ark., in 1945. By the late 1950s he owned more than a dozen similar stores, but decided that the future was in discounting rather than in five-and-dimes. After studying a K mart in Chicago...