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...Paulo, 660 miles away. Saddled with more than $80 billion in foreign debt, Brazil currently imports 750,000 bbl. a day of crude oil, at a cost of more than $27 million a day. Eventually, the mammoth dam could be the equivalent of a 600,000-bbl.-a-year oil well...
...disgrace was seen by federal law-enforcement officials as symptomatic of the pervasive lure of illegal drugs as a source of illicit riches. "This shows the incredible ability of drugs to corrupt," claimed one Justice Department official. "You're not surprised to find occasional corruption of a $40,000-a-year FBI agent," he added, "but you don't expect it to reach into the ranks of an $850,000-a-year auto executive. It makes you wonder how many other companies have been saved this...
...reason for this accusation of collusion lies in the fact that two of Kenyatta's friends were given city jobs by Rizzo. Wycliffe Jangdharrie was appointed to a $19,500-a-year patronage job and Wilmer B. Woodland became a $21,500-a-year special assistant to a gang control program. Personnel records on Woodland are not available, but Jangdharrie was appointed just two months before Kenyatta decided to run for mayor and terminated within a year of the primary. Kenyatta says Woodland was appointed at the beginning of Rizzo's term and adds that Jangdharrie counseled him against running...
...Foreign Minister when the Argentines invaded the Falklands, and Robert O. Anderson, 65, retired chairman of Atlantic Richfield. The firm's services: strategic planning and advice on international-business decision making for about 20 large long-term corporate customers willing to pay the reported $250,000-a-year retainer...
...younger generation knows that $9,287 will not buy many tickets to a Fleetwood Mac concert, but the S.M.A.P. remembers when $10,000 was generally accepted as the unofficial frontier to wealth. To be "a $10,000-a-year man" was synonymous with membership in the upper middle class. That was what the S.M.A.P.'S father had earned as a professor at Harvard, and when the S.M.A.P. was young he considered it the height of vaulting ambition to earn as much. Some day, when he too made $10,000 a year, he would be able to consider himself...