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Only the most affluent families in the United States will be able to own their houses if present housing trends continue, a study released yesterday by the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies says...
American Duty. But the vast majority of Americans will clear up their Christmas bills with only minor difficulty and then launch on another round of credit buying-or just never stop. In the modern U.S., the Affluent Society has become the Credit Society, and an insistence on buying only what can be paid for in cash seems as outmoded as a crew cut. Those who cannot get credit are second-class citizens. Those who try to limit their borrowing are sometimes viewed as economic subversives-as TIME'S Johanna McGeary discovered when she confided to a Boston banker that...
Perhaps the most outspoken opponent of minimal competency is Educator Arthur Wise, whose influential 1968 treatise, Rich Schools, Poor Schools, argued that children in both affluent and underprivileged school districts had the right to an equal education. Wise is currently working on another book, tentatively titled Hyper-Rationalization, which condemns competency testing for "narrowing the goals of education and prompting teachers to teach the test." Wise fears that minimal competency entails the extension to education of such business-school concepts as cost effectiveness and accountability. Says he of minimal competency advocates: "It is as if they want to set goals...
...winds northward to pick up arctic cold and blocking the normal flow of moisture to the West. In California, the loss in crops and other agricultural production may exceed $1 billion, and the water shortage is already affecting daily living in some unlikely places. One is Marin County, an affluent, scenic suburban area just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco...
...proposed international air shuttle. Skytrain is aimed at a sector of the travel market that even the ABCs do not cater to: passengers who are both on a budget and unable to plan ahead for cheap charter fares. They include, in Laker's definition, the less than affluent citizen "who gets a call that Aunt Matilda is very sick and wants to visit her before she dies...