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Early next week 1445 anxious high school seniors will receive acceptance letters to the Class of 1977, a class which will be more affluent than its predecessor...
...roaring success," says Oregon Governor Tom McCall. He points to a three-month-long survey of receptacles along 25 selected roads and highways which found 75% fewer cans and bottles than usual. McCall's conclusion: even relatively affluent Americans will return containers to claim the deposit. The container and bottling industries disagree, contending that, despite the law, the number of discarded empties has actually increased. Moreover, the manufacturers say, Oregon's law is needlessly hurting industry...
...more behind the quick acceptances than a sense of security and the lure of a free candlelit lunch. In San Francisco, there are far more single men than single women, and eating with the TDOs gives a young woman the opportunity to size up a variety of young, affluent eligibles. "Here I was, one of two girls surrounded by some 20 guys, and all of them good-looking," burbles Nancy Noren, 27, one of the TDOs' recent guests. "I mean, like...
...decision, it will result in higher taxes for them as well as less money for their own schools. That could lower the quality of their children's education. Yet while they are obviously justified in demanding the best education that money can buy for their own children, many affluent parents admit that a way should be found to provide an equally good education for poor children. Some sociologists, like James Coleman of Johns Hopkins University, claim that more money will not ensure better-quality education, but most educators-and parents-disagree...
...Trib huffed in July, "while he refers to Israel as 'the Prussia of the Middle East.'" The next month, the paper hopped up again to skewer Von Hoffman's critical description of Republican partying at the Miami convention: "If some [of the delegates] appeared to be affluent, well, so do some syndicated columnists." When Von Hoffman recently blamed the nationwide energy crisis on the greed of oil, gas and coal industries, the Trib retorted on the same day: "Danger: dilettante at work." So far, the paper has quarreled with the columnist (whose regular base is the Washington...