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...morning,” he says. “We looked forward to it. We played by the rules. We knew the rules.” At that time, players would abide by three commandments. One could choose the game. One could not raise more than 25-cent bets. And no one could raise more than three times. In addition, there were no IOU’s, and one could leave...
Mansfield said that he was especially disturbed by statistics for Government 98, the junior tutorial, which show that the number of A’s given in the course last year only declined 5 per cent from the previous year. Ninety-five percent of those taking the course received honors grades...
...simple as money, Ornstein and his small-airline colleagues are also embarrassing the major carriers in another area: their paychecks. Given the huge economic hit the industry has taken in the last week, Ornstein and Mesa?s president will take huge pay cuts of 50 per cent, and the rest of the carrier's management will see their salaries cut by 20 per cent. Likewise, executives at Atlantic Coast Airlines, AirTran and Frontier Airlines also announced pay cuts for its top officials...
...with the business of getting rich. He's promised them a million baht for every village, has told them of his One Village, One Product plan, has instituted a new micro-lending program, and he's already delivered on his pledge to offer 30-baht (60-cent) medical care to everyone in the country. No Thai Prime Minister has accomplished this much in his first few months in office...
Peer pressure can hit lower-income families especially hard. George Valadez, a hot-dog and beer vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field, has sole custody of his three young kids. His concept of being a good provider is to pour every spare cent into them. The family's two-bedroom apartment is crammed with five television sets, three video-game consoles and two VCRs. Next month his kids want to attend a church camp in Michigan that costs $100 a child. So two weeks ago, abandoning their custom of giving away outgrown clothes and toys to neighbors, the family held...