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...Miami, sold ounces to a small circle of affluent suburbanites throughout the Northeast, lived unflamboyantly and saved about $150,000. "Am I glad I did it? Yes, plain and simple," Leonard says. "It was a perfectly safe business...
...garbage-strewn vacant lots is one of the country's most notorious drug marketplaces. Dealers crowd the blighted 15-by four-block "town" 24 hours a day, dispensing cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, angel dust and an array of other drugs. The Captain, in his 40s, is a white, affluent tradesman from Brooklyn. He got his nickname because he once owned a yacht. He and his girlfriend, a pink-sugar blond he calls Snowdrop, come into this mostly Hispanic neighborhood every Sunday to buy cocaine ("Big C") and heroin ("Big D," for dope). They like to shoot up with a mixture...
...have not held up. Smokestack industries-autos, steel, chemicals-that were expected to consume more and more electricity from the atom are waning in importance in the American economy as imports grab bigger shares of U.S. markets. Demand for electricity by what was supposed to be an ever more affluent, wasteful society has fallen off sharply. U.S. consumption of electricity declined 2% or so last year after rising at an average rate of 5% during the 1970s. Consumption fell 4% during the first quarter of 1983, even as the economy was reviving...
Upscale, educated and destined to become model consumers, the spring-break crowd has become a prime target for advertisers eager to turn the affluent young into lifelong customers. "It's a good break from all the sun," said Brett Meili, a junior from Northwestern University, of the promotional games and events laid on for the students. "Whether I will buy the products, I don't know, but when I see the stuff in the store I'll remember I was jumping up and down for it in Daytona...
Three basic arguments have been put forth for national service. Proponents argue that it would ameliorate the disastrous youth unemployment problem, improve the quality and equality of the armed forces by bringing a broader range of teenagers from more affluent and better educated backgrounds into the services, and extract some sort of in-kind payment for accruing the advantages of U.S. citizenship...