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...been changed, with the result that people in the upper-middle and higher brackets will be hard-hit. For example, the amount withheld from the wages of a married worker with two children who earns $250 a week will remain virtually unchanged at $30.50. But for an employee earning $400 a week, the withholding will rise from $60.90 to $67.10, and a $500-a-week earner will pay $96.60 v. $84.80. By cutting into the cash that consumers have to spend, the withholding changes could impede the economy's recovery...
...number from Oklahomans who fled to California during the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. Many Viet Nam veterans applied, along with at least one out-of-work aerospace engineer. Despite the trend toward agribusiness, there is a widespread nostalgia for the land. Another applicant is a $190-a-week television film editor who lives in a suburb of Boston. "It's a chance for me to work at something that would be my very own," he wrote. "I'm sick of pollution, demonstrations and riots. I want to get away...
...heels and weighed just over 100 lbs.-started out in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies, where White was her dancing partner in 1915. When White went on his own four years later, he took Tiny with him. She soon shimmied her way to $1,000-a-week stardom in films and on the stage. Her career faded after the flapper era, and she spent her last years alone in a hotel off the Great White...
NICHOLS (NBC). A $40,000-a-week salary and a $1,000,000 TV-movie guarantee lured James Garner (Maverick) back to the comedy-western business. Cast as a sheriff in need of vocational guidance, he emotes with accustomed facetiousness, his eyes flecked with fear and with understandable lust for the bosomy barmaid (Margot Kidder) who is the town's tease. The second episode took a clumsy swipe at U.S. jingoism and even Viet Nam (a 1914 cavalry officer notes: "Sometimes to save a town, you have to destroy it"). But there is a loco charm and potential intelligence...
...bringing in customers. As the number of customers increases, the purity of the heroin is decreased, leading to bigger volume and bigger profits for the dealer. In less than a year, a diligent pusher with a $100-a-week business can be netting $10,000 a week. What started the killings in Detroit was a surfeit of aspirants for $10,000-a-week businesses...