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...Statistics found that young families in 1983 spent 18% less of their budget on home furnishings and 32% less on clothes than young families in 1973. There is, to be sure, a so-called superclass of high-living yuppies, as young urban professional Baby Boomers were dubbed by Syndicated Columnist Bob Greene in early 1983. But according to the U.S. Census Bureau, only about 4.5 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 40 make more than $35,000 a year. More than six times as many--some 30 million Baby Boomers--make less than $15,000 a year...
Porterfield's case hardly suffices as a rallying cry to storm the barriers of discrimination. As Chicago Tribune Columnist Mike Royko put it, "I might understand PUSH's concern for Porterfield if he had been flung out of the station door and forced to cadge quarters on a street corner . . . (but) he hasn't exactly become a member of America's underclass...
...news." If the event is sufficiently major, Lord says, Will might be asked if he wants to do a commentary. But to Will this is not the best use of him: "You don't deliver what you were hired for, a lot of surprises." As a newspaper columnist, Will deliberately writes "way off the news" at least one-third of the time, believing that "people don't read you for the subject" but because they're interested in "the play of your mind on the world." (Sometimes humility can be an effort for commentators...
...year ago, when he abandoned his lucrative ($400,000 a year) perch as a syndicated columnist and commentator to take on the $75,000-a-year job of overseeing speechwriting and press relations for the White House, Buchanan was expected to give the Republican right a voice that would carry straight to the Oval Office. But more often than not he was trumped by moderates, particularly National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, who favored compromise with Congress and the Soviet Union. Buchanan's shaky start disappointed the true believers, but he professed to be unfazed. After all, he would assure friends...
Handling an SOB once it has escaped can be quite a fascinating exercise. President Truman let one loose after Columnist Drew Pearson blasted Aide Harry Vaughan; Pearson promptly promoted a new fraternity, "Sons of Brotherhood." Kennedy, SOBing during the 1962 steel crisis, blamed his father for having told him that big steelmen fit the description. Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker stirred some trouble after an Ottawa meeting when his staff claimed that notes Kennedy left behind revealed that the President had SOBed Diefenbaker in the margin. Kennedy claimed he couldn't have done that because he did not know...