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Keith Grant knows that from painful experience. A Chicago steelworker, Grant was laid off from his $30,000-a-year job two years ago, on the day before he and his wife planned to close the purchase of their first house. That dream is postponed now. Grant, 28, earns only $13,000 as a maintenance worker at a Holiday Inn; his wife Pamela stays home and cares for their three children and stuffs envelopes to earn household money. But Grant is looking for a higher-paying job as an electrician. Says he: "I've been brought up in the middle...
Since the all-volunteer program started, funding has been one of Citystep's biggest obstacles, Peck says. She spent the summer of 1984 trying to get the project off the ground, getting approval from Cambridge public schools and getting public funding to run the $15,000-a-year program. Because of budget cutbacks, Citystep received only minimal assistance from the Cambridge school system...
Bennett later said that families earning more than the $60,000-a-year federal aid income ceiling, and who are desperately trying to finance college education for several children, should "maybe do your family planning a little better." The federal government, he said, "can't afford to give every student the opportunity to go to the college of his choice...
...comes a case that leaves Congress no alternative but to go through it again. The defendant is Harry Claiborne, 69, a federal judge from Las Vegas convicted in 1984 on two counts of tax evasion. In prison since May, he still collects his $78,000-a-year federal salary. If he is not removed by the Senate, he will be able to return to the bench once he finishes his two-year jail term...
...sale of the $5 billion company to Coca-Cola. The stunned directors, all of whom were determined to keep CBS independent, asked Wyman to leave the room. Sometime after 5 p.m. two directors told Wyman that his backing among the group was gone. He then resigned his $680,000-a-year job and left the building...