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...third set, Caroline Burger set up Manda Schossberger for several kills to give the Crimson a 6-4 lead. Harvard continued to out play the Tigers, with Forman placing perfect dink shots. Jean-Louis and Polikoff added kills to increase Harvard's advantage...
...With dink points by Forman and kills by Schossberger and Polikoff, the Crimson closed the Quaker lead...
David Eagle, 33, a Hollywood television producer, and Nancy Weingrow Eagle, 31, an entertainment lawyer, also fill out the DINK profile. In order to earn their hefty incomes, each one works 50 to 60 hours a week. They have two dogs and care for them the way they decorate their home -- which is to say, lavishly. "Earthquake, our Labrador-husky mix, has beautiful blue eyes. I have blue eyes, so people think I'm his father," jokes David. "We're going skiing tomorrow and taking both dogs with us." In the late 1960s he supported Eugene McCarthy and was labeled...
...says Faith Popcorn, chairman of New York City's BrainReserve, a hip consulting firm. "There is a desire for security, privacy, a nest. Anything you can make that is easy and secure, warm and available, you can market to their cocoon." Philip Kotler, professor of marketing at Northwestern, divides DINKs into upper and lower classes: U-DINKs and L-DINKs. No doubt, while the L-DINKs are rushing to graduate from K mart to Marshall Field, the U-DINKs will be deserting the Banana Republic for Abercrombie & Fitch. Because busy U-DINKs tend to miss mass-media advertising, upscale magazines...
...DINK dilemma is when or whether to have children. In 1986 the cost of raising a child to age 18 averaged almost $100,000; of course, that figure does not include future college expenses. Like many DINKs, William Cohen, 33, an Atlanta lawyer, and Susan Penny-Cohen, 28, founder of a headhunting firm for lawyers and paralegals, have not yet planned to reproduce. "As our income ^ grew, we found that we had less time," says William. Northwestern's Kotler suspects that the double-incomers' frenzy of consumption will exhaust itself, and more couples will see children as desirable: "Children...