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Attitudes about saving differ strikingly between members of the baby-boom generation and their parents. Barton Goldberg of Delray Beach, Fla., a retired retailing executive, and his wife Rita recall saving a $1,800 nest egg in the 1950s on a salary of only $13,000 while living in New York City and rearing two children. When the family moved to Virginia, where living costs were much less, the Goldbergs were able to save nearly half of Barton's take-home pay. Says their daughter Jane Warden, 34: "My parents were very big bargain hunters. My mother would wait...
While Jews and blacks differ on the question ofa homeland for Palestinians, he said, "There isunanimous support for this whole question ofemigration and human rights...The CongressionalBlack Caucus are probably the most loyal membersas far as human rights and Soviet Jewry...
...Experts differ on four-wheel steering's potential. Jerry Rivard, vice president of Bendix Electronics, a major auto supplier, calls it a "dramatic jump in technology" and predicts that it will be standard equipment on cars of the future. Ron Glantz, an auto analyst at Montgomery Securities, feels otherwise. "Other than parking," he says, "the only benefit is on gravel roads at speeds over 70 m.p.h." In Japan, where the technology was first marketed more than two years ago, car buyers seem favorably impressed. Nissan reports that 40% of the Japanese who pick the flashy Skyline model ask for four...
Global Regulation. The speed at which the crash circled the world made it clear that Tokyo, London and Manhattan are all connected outposts in a vast trading market. Yet the rules that govern stock trading can differ radically from country to country -- and indeed from one city to another. Some Congressmen are proposing that the Chicago futures markets be put under the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which controls the stock markets. At the moment, the futures trading pits are supervised by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which also regulates such mundane commodities as pork bellies and grain...
Doctrinally, the Boston Church of Christdoesn't differ that radically from otherFundamentalist churches. They, too, preach thatthe Bible is the ultimate authority on all moralquestions, that adult baptism by immersion isnecessary for salvation, and that most establishedchurches have departed from the true path of theLord...