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...live near the volcano. But most are making money cleaning up. Tom Henderson, a foreman of a team of loggers working to salvage what might be as much as $50 million worth of downed timber for Weyerhaeuser Co., gets $11.80 an hour, plus a $6-a-day hazardous-duty bonus. So does Norm Pettit, who came from Coos Bay, Ore., because "this is the only boom area in logging in the county." Jobs with cleanup and logging crews have attracted enough newcomers to push enrollment in the Toutle school district from a pre-eruption 502 children to a current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Slowly, the Wounds Begin to Heal | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Judge Hungate's ruling is not expected for several weeks. Meanwhile, Justice Department experts in Washington note that compulsory busing between St. Louis and its suburbs would also be expensive. There is now no precise dollar limit on the tuition bonus. The St. Louis plan is very much an experiment, and it might not work. Yet it is clear that integration needs new approaches. Observes School Expert James Coleman, a busing critic: "One of the problems with desegregation plans in general is that they have been punitive. Children and their families have ordinarily not received any benefit, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Carrot | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...offers, there has been a rule since 1978 that no recruiters may talk to students before the spring of the second year. The rule is not always obeyed. Among the offers to first-year students: a $5,000 open account for clothes at Brooks Bros, as an "image bonus" if a student signs up early; a $5,000 increase in starting salary if the student signs up within two weeks, but $1,000 less for each week of delay. Bain & Co., a management consulting firm, was cited for violations last year but had no regrets. Said a Bain official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Money Chase | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

Nelles will be "a great bonus" to the History Department, Wallace T. MacCaffrey, the department chairman, said yesterday. But he added that there has been little student demand for Canadian history courses...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Visiting History Prof to Teach First Canada Course in Years | 4/30/1981 | See Source »

...away in a $62,500 four-room house that also has a well-cared-for garden. Saito bought the house two years ago with his own savings, plus loans from his company and bank. Despite monthly house payments of $152 and an additional $1,810 deducted from his yearly bonus to pay off the mortgage, he still saves 15% of his salary. While Saito likes Japanese food, he started his day with a Western-style breakfast of coffee, bread and two hard-boiled eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Daily Samurai Duel | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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