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...economic woes is the end of the cold war, a wondrous development for the country's future but a bombshell in the short run. "This economy has been on a wartime footing for all of our lives, and that's big stuff," says economist Sinai. "Instead of 3.3%-a-year rises in defense spending in real terms, we're going down in defense 5% a year." Besides letting huge clouds of steam out of the overall economy, the military build-down will take a huge personal toll on displaced workers. Says labor expert Lacey: "The people who are being jettisoned...
...House of Representatives, Jack Russ was any Congressman's best friend. For nearly 25 years he doled out pork, fixed parking tickets and covered bad checks at the House bank. But when the bank's irregularities came to light, Russ resigned, making himself ineligible for a $70,000-a-year pension -- at least until Representative Mervyn Dymally of California put Russ back on the payroll as his "adviser." Now Russ can get full health benefits and his pension...
...most important part of Russ's $115,092-a-year job was to hand out lawmakers' monthly paychecks and supervise a House bank that adjoined his spacious office. Russ regularly permitted members to carry large interest-free overdrafts, some of which were outstanding for years. But the House bank closed last year, after investigators found that lawmakers had written more than 8,000 bad checks in one year alone...
...finished if he eventually confirms Flowers' charges, since he has already denied them. A second potential pitfall is the possibility of Flowers-like charges by the three other women Clinton has explicitly denied sleeping with, or others. A third problem could concern Flowers' current employment as a $17,520-a-year administrative assistant at the Arkansas Employment Security Department. A Clinton staffer "steered" Flowers to the agency, a referral described as "routine." If it turns out she was placed in her job in order to secure her silence, Clinton's troubles will mount...
...Skinner was reared in Illinois, received an accounting degree at the University of Illinois, served in the Army and then joined IBM as a sales representative. Though the | computer company named him Outstanding Salesman of 1967, Skinner attended law school at night and gave up his $50,000-a-year corporate job to be a $9,000-a- year prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office. He rose to U.S. Attorney, earning the nickname "Sam the Hammer" for his aggressive prosecution of corrupt officials in the state Democratic machine...