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While Finnegan, the most successful fundraiser of the eight candidates, can afford a steady stream of television advertisements, the less affluent contenders are planning different strategies for the upcoming two weeks...
...that the victim's beige cotton T shirt had been made in Morocco and her pink polyester shorts purchased in San Francisco. Then they received a call from an informed source suggesting that those clothes might belong to California-born Monika Zumsteg Telling, 27, the wife of an affluent member of British high society, Michael Telling, 33. Last week police descended upon the couple's rustic Buckinghamshire hideaway and charged Telling with murder. They also found the victim's head stashed in the garage...
...short story have been moving upscale. The line of Hemingway drifters and Flannery O'Connor grotesques seems to be dying out. Characters rarely worry any more about finding God or their next meal. They are likely instead to be well educated, sensitive to a fault, politically liberal, and affluent enough to feel pleasurable guilt in their possessions. They tend, in short, to resemble the stereotypical reader of The New Yorker, which is where the luckiest of these fictional people are chosen to appear. The rejected ones must troop off to the quarterlies and go through their paces (at greatly...
Officials fear that as the powder's retail worth falls, new, less affluent buyers will become regular customers. The going price per gram is $75 to $100; the glut could cut that to $50 or even $25. Coke is reaching the streets in a purer, stronger form. All this worries Dr. Charles Wetli, Dade County's deputy chief medical examiner: "If the price drops and there is an increase in purity," he warns, "you're going to have a lot more deaths from snorting and free-basing...
While costly security systems once were mainly for the rich, they are now being eagerly sought by the less affluent. Says H. Tim Crow, vice president and secretary of Atlanta-based Rollins Protective Services (fiscal 1983 sales: $28.5 million), a supplier of detection equipment and services: "Yes, we're still protecting the wealthy-athletes, entertainers, top executives, the heirs to fortunes. We've always protected them. But now we are also protecting the middle class, or the man who is retired and lives with his wife on a pension." A survey commissioned earlier this year by Security Distributing...