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...many workers, especially those with small companies in industries that are not strongly unionized, the loss of a job means hardship. Laid off in April from his job as a stockroom clerk for a car-parts distributor, Harold Pollard, 42, of Atlanta, became embroiled in a dispute with his employer over the terms of his dismissal. As a result, for the past four months he has not received any unemployment compensation, though he now expects his first check this week. Meanwhile, he and his wife have subsisted on her $100 per week income as a cleaning lady. They have fallen...
...Dick Nixon the grocery clerk became Richard Nixon the politician, the gripes became political sore points. The beefy, "affable if sometimes bumptious" Don with the trademark ski-jump nose was a businessman of questionable ethics, apparently a family affliction. In the 1950s, he cashed in on his brother's vice-presidential status by opening Nixon's, a California fast-food chain that featured "Nixonburgers." When the chain developed a few weak links, Howard Hughes selflessly donated $205,000 to the cause, a loan that Don never repaid (a loan not unlike Colonel Khadaffi's contribution to Billy Carter's coffers...
...work. On a court noted for its fragmentation and diversity, Stevens is the extreme case, a personal loner and a legal maverick. Yet he has won the respect of the other Justices for his originality and ability to find new angles on old ideas (he once casually asked a clerk to "rethink" the history and meaning of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause). Says one of his colleagues: "If there is any conceivable new way to approach a case or a legal issue, he'll find...
Snow's distinguished careers began in modest circumstances; he championed ambition and meritocracy because he was the successful product of both. He was born in the industrial city of Leicester, the son of a clerk in a shoe factory. His family, as he often remarked later, was "shabby genteel, not working class but no money to spare." The boy gave signs early on that lower-middle-class neighborhoods would not hold him long. He showed an aptitude for science, a field he took up because his grammar school offered no arts courses. He won a scholarship to Leicester University...
...promote conservative views." In the 1978 election campaign, Reagan used the C.F.T.R. as the primary source for the $615,000 that he handed out to 25 candidates for the U.S. Senate, 234 for the House, 19 for governorships and 122 others seeking offices ranging from Lieutenant Governor to county clerk...