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...Georgia's affluent De Kalb County just outside Atlanta, 12,000 irate homeowners have signed a petition to dump the county's chief executive, Walter Russell, nephew of the late Democratic Senator Richard Russell, whom they blame for putting in a computerized system that reassessed property annually instead of every four years. Homeowner fury has forced the De Kalb assessors to unplug the infernal machine. In Chicago's Cook County, property taxes for many homeowners jumped anywhere from 20% to 100% last year. Some of the most extreme increases are in California, where demand and speculation have...
Once, its very name was synonymous with the good life. No longer. Today Sweden, the postwar living example of the affluent materialistic paradise, is caught in a raging economic crisis, the like of which few industrial countries have seen since the 1930s. Workers who used to boast of their high living standards and womb-to-tomb social welfare system nowadays demonstrate in the streets to demand speedy government action to stop soaring prices and booming unemployment...
This does not mean that Vance, an affluent Wall Street lawyer with long service in Democratic Administrations and close ties to the once dominant Eastern foreign policy establishment, disagrees in any basic way with Carter's goals in world affairs. Indeed, he takes considerable pride in helping to shape them. Nor does it mean that he is without blame for some of the setbacks those policies have suffered...
...however, the question is still one of economics. While it is true that sponsors can now be found for programs with black principals, those programs are still aimed at a primarily white audience, an audience that is perceived by the sponsors and producers of the programs as being more affluent and therefore more able to purchase the products hawked on the program...
...Times is hardly the first big-city daily to follow its more affluent readers to the suburbs. The New York Times has launched four new inserts for neighboring areas on Sunday, the Miami Herald now has seven different editions throughout south Florida, the Detroit News has a computerized printing plant in the suburbs for speedier distribution, and the Chicago Tribune last year invested in suburban growth in, of all places, San Diego -by buying nearby Escondido's Times-Advocate (circ. 31,000). The Los Angeles Times itself has been producing a separate edition for neighboring Orange County...