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...short of arbitration eligibility, he is the sorest of all the unhappy players automatically renewed by their clubs (in his case for $450,000, up $110,000). Two weeks ago Clemens stomped out. Over in the Mets' camp, this year's Gooden is trimmer and happier and thinks his dip last season from 24-4 to 17-6 may be traced in part to a mouthful of abscessed teeth. "Some games, I took a lot of pain pills." Missing his gold front tooth for the first time as a pro, Gooden went out last week with a perfect smile...
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT DEWITT loves to party, but few are aware of his more serious side. Many nights, long after the cheese dip has curdled and the half-empty highballs have been infected with stray cigarette butts, after the last guest has either gone home or passed out, Dewitt engages in his secret passion: creating life from nothingness...
...condition. Her octogenarian parents' life savings of $30,000 were devoured before her father's four-year battle with cancer and a heart condition ended in his death on Christmas day. She is still responsible for her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. "Now I am having to dip into my own savings, and I will probably have to go through all of it," says Beyer. "I have been to every agency to ask for help. I am bitter, but I try to take it one day at a time...
Industry experts predict that Northrop's earnings could dip by 50% this quarter as the company absorbs the costs of closing down the F-20 project. Disappointed but undaunted, Northrop officials maintained that the F-20 experience would help the firm win a contract to build a more advanced jet fighter, for which the Air Force has made a preliminary $691 million commitment...
...acknowledge that the size of middle-class income might have been squeezed a bit but chalk up the problem to temporary factors. Gordon Green, assistant chief of the population division at the Census Bureau, believes the flood of young baby boomers into the job market is responsible for a dip in middle-class wages. Says Green: "Since so many of the baby boomers were in entry-level jobs, they pulled down the overall average. As they get more experienced, productivity should go up and their income as well...