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...planning deep cuts from projected Medicare spending as part of the effort to balance the budget. And the amount they're hoping to squeeze out of Medicare--$270 billion over seven years--is embarrassingly close to the amount--$245 billion--they're planning in tax cuts, mainly for the affluent. Naturally, they would prefer to portray their Medicare cuts as an effort to "save Medicare." But $270 billion is double what would be needed just to stabilize the trust fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST WAY TO FIX MEDICARE | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...LADIES! LADIES! YOU GOTTA BUY THIS. THIS IS THE GREATEST INVENTION," Mariann Raftery says loudly, waving a plastic bag of prepared salad greens in the middle of the local A&P in Scarsdale, an affluent suburb just 15 miles north of New York City. Seven well-dressed Japanese women, pens poised over notebooks, nod politely, not entirely sure what to make of this latest piece of American ingenuity. "It's so convenient," Raftery explains. "And now they have cole slaw too." But there are so many more mysteries to ponder at the A&P. Michiko Takai wants to know: "Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISPATCHES: THE TRUTH ABOUT CHEEZ-WHIZ | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...father, who was born a slave, had built a thriving produce business in Boston and was prosperous enough to buy a summer home in Oak Bluffs. By 1943 West had moved there to live. Five years later, her first novel, The Living Is Easy, was set in the affluent world of proud black achievers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE SECOND TIME AROUND | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...semiretired teacher of the deaf who is the state chapter's unpaid chairman, told Reed that after 18 months of organizing, it was time for the state association to get a full-time, paid executive director. "We're at a turning point," he said. Looking around at his affluent welcome, Reed could not help agreeing. That night he attended another, larger gathering of activists-this one involving 250 people-and expanded on his optimism. The Coalition had just registered its 1,600th county chapter, he said. "We're the McDonald's of American politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO RALPH REED | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...businesses and foundations have "adopted" 650 of the area's schools, donating volunteer time, money and equipment. "The schools that are sexy to corporations are in poor areas," says a local PTA president. "When you talk about inequity in the public schools, the inequity really is to the [affluent] Westside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEYOND BAKE SALES | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

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