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...Postal Service has a huge sideline business, its No. 2 money earner: selling information about you to marketers. The USPS compiles and sells the country's most complete demographic data on consumer tastes and interests. "We know who skis, who fly-fishes, who goes to the movies," says chief operating officer William Henderson. Such detailed information can serve as the basis for targeted advertising, as opposed to plain old junk mail. Henderson says this advertising is "the fastest-growing segment of first-class mail." Internet services can play the same game, of course, and have been compiling their own data...
...between, much depends on individual circumstances. It's no stretch to interpret $100,000 as a lot of money for a childless couple in Louisville, Ky., where life is good and the cost of living is low. But that same money disappears fast for a two-earner family in a high-cost city like New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, with three children approaching college age and parents who may need financial help. Yet the new tax bill arbitrarily sets that level as the threshold for wealth. Provisions for education and child tax credits and dream IRAS are phased...
...Sunday, Soldiers' Field will change its name to O'Donnell Field, in honor of Joe O'Donnell '67, a former Harvard football and baseball letter-earner...
...cornered what is now dubbed the "home meal replacement market" which meets the needs of the two- wage earner family which has money to spend on food and wants something fast and simple to take home, according to Feiner...
...earner for 1994-95 was Franklyn G. Jenifer, president of Howard University, located in Washington, D.C. Jenifer's salary and benefits of $800,318 included a severance payment...