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...true. But with no job, three kids and a fourth baby on the way last summer, the 28-year- old plasterer from Palmdale, California, was willing to try anything. The ad from a Florida company called Roblan Inc. described a spectacular offering: a tax-free $70,000-a-year job working on a construction crew overseas. Food, housing and medical expenses were all paid for. The lady at Roblan was enthusiastic. "They said I'd be working on hotels in the Caribbean, the Bahamas," says Smets. "They said I'd be leaving in three to four weeks...
...last night of the Administration, Wilson nonetheless signed a document giving Bush exclusive legal control of all presidential information on the tapes -- although under federal law, control of presidential material is supposed to remain with the government. At the time Wilson was under consideration for a $114,000-a-year job as head of the George Bush Center at Texas A & M University, a post he has subsequently taken. Wilson said he played "no role" in drawing up the document brought to him by government lawyers with the assurance that it was "proper and legal." Said a Senate staff member...
...Democrats and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity. "These are people who spent Vietnam in Oxford; they are $500,000 lawyers who hire illegal immigrants as baby-sitters; they are hotshot lobbyists. This group has no understanding of the kind of sacrifices made every day by the $26,000-a-year couple in Peoria, Illinois. They don't speak the language of the older generation that fought in World War II or the language of the under-30 generation that hasn't shared in the circumstances of the boomers...
...Feltsman. When he arrived in the U.S. in 1987, everything was handed to him on a silver platter: hailed as a "hero of the human spirit" by Ronald Reagan, he was offered debut performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, a busy concert schedule, an $80,000-a-year teaching job at the State University of New York at New Paltz and a recording contract with Sony Classical. The recording contract, however, turned out to be a Faustian bargain: the pianist was expected to concentrate on the powerhouse Russian composers -- Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev -- rather than the Germans who were...
Smith occupies a comfortable $26,000-a-year seat on the GM board. Each time he actually attends a board meeting, he gets an extra $1,000. He earns an additional $12,000 a year for sharing his thoughts with the other members of the finance committee. GM provides him with a company car and an office as well. The capper is his retirement package, which a GM spokesman describes as "in the range of $1 million a year." This is his reward for a decade of stewardship in which the company lost 10 percentage points of U.S. car-market...