Word: deadbeat
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...weekends ago, I was on the phone with my father, explaining that I'm never going to have a real job, that I'm going to go pick fruit in Australia for a living. To which he replied, "Good, you can be a deadbeat like your uncle." "Who?" I asked. "Mark--he's disappeared." What? Soon, my mother was on the phone, telling me how the family had cut Mark off a month before, saying they wouldn't give him any more money until he got himself together. Both Peter and Susie had offered...
...cope with an overloaded system bogged down by a lack of commonplace technology. Perhaps instead of funding an RV museum that no one visits, Elkhart's city fathers could better spend the town's money on modernizing an antiquated system that forces dependent children to do without and allows deadbeat dads to go free. GERRI MOTTS Marietta...
...wave. In fact, Japan was about the only country that was not graced by an encouraging word from Bill Clinton or his top aides as they wrapped up their China extravaganza. Instead, while Beijing's mistakes are all but forgiven these days, Tokyo is regarded as the regional deadbeat. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who pronounced China "an island of stability" in Asia's economic crisis, reminded people in Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea that he was "deeply, deeply" concerned about the value of the yen. Other officials were tossing off background critiques of Japan (whose Finance Minister, Hikaru Matsunaga...
...Although the bill will actually cost taxpayers $13 billion over the next 10 years, it's loaded with real benefits for citizens: Shifting the burden of proof in noncriminal cases from taxpayers to the agency; helping divorced women avoid paying for their deadbeat husband's debts; a break on the capital gains tax for investors. After all, $13 billion spread over a decade of budgets isn't much to pay -- not for a kinder, gentler...
Eighner is far from a conventional deadbeat. He was in his early 40s before he ever became homeless, and he has worked at many jobs, including a mostly steady decade of work at a state mental hospital. Since Travels with Lizbeth, he has published a novel, a book of essays and several books of gay erotica. He continues to write for a number of Texas publications, which brings in $100 to $300 a month. His Web page, which he designed and built himself, bristles with entrepreneurialism in its offers to sell books and give online writing courses. It's hard...