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...great deal of the Coors family money is donated through the Adolph Coors Foundation, which gave out $3,752,000 in 1985. Most of the foundation's money goes to education and community service programs, and only 20 per cent funds 'public affairs' organizations, such as Accuracy in Media and the right-wing National Forum Foundation. In 1985, $100,000 went to the conservative Heritage Foundation--a think-tank that funds research calling for a substantial decrease in federal student financial aid and an increase in funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars). Joseph Coors is a founder...
...against minority employees, and point to a 1975 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) suit against the brewery, which was settled out of court. At the time, Coors agreed to an affirmative action plan which met with the approval of the EEOC. Today, Coors' workforce of 9400 is 4.4 per cent Black and 9 per cent Hispanic--roughly equivalent to the respective populations in the Denver area...
Anyone who has ever tried to get stamps anywhere except at the post office knows that drugstore vending machines usually charge about 50 percent more than the cost of the stamps. And when you use them, you usually pay something like 66 cents for a 22-cent stamp and two nine-cent stamps. God only knows what you are supposed to do with the nine-cent stamps. They don't even buy a postcard these days...
...post office, however, you can get three 22-cent stamps for the same 66 cents. You can even get a book of 20 for $4.40 or a sheet of 100 for--you guessed it--$22.00. But you have to wait in line behind 15,000 people, each waiting to mail a box of lemon twists to their grandchildren in Tacoma, Washington...
...depths of reading period the value of my old friend the 'Muffin has finally been driven home in the caffeine-slurping vacuum that was once my brain. Gone are the 79 cent days in personal study paradise...