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...David Stockman sits and scrawls on his yellow legal pad all his tart recollections of how things really work in the Reagan White House, he is earning about $2,200 an hour. Figuring, that is, that the departing Budget Director is toiling away eight hours every day to produce by his Dec. 1 deadline the blockbuster book for which Harper & Row has just given him a prodigious advance of $2 million plus. A handsome sum indeed, enough to pay about five minutes' worth of the deficit in the Administration's own federal budget for this year. It would have taken...
...Houston jury, however, was led to believe otherwise by Pennzoil's colorful lawyer, Joseph Jamail. A Lone Star folk hero who wears cowboy boots in court, Jamail may earn more than $2 billion in legal fees if the fine stands. A personal-liability specialist, he once won a $6.8 million settlement against Remington Arms, a gun company...
...Means plan gets tougher on businesses. While the Administration wanted to lower the maximum corporate tax rate from 46% to 33%, the House panel would drop it to 36%. The committee's proposal would raise the top tax rate for capital gains, which is the money that taxpayers earn on growing investments like corporate stock. Reagan's plan would have cut the maximum tax rate from 20% to 17.5%, but the new proposal would boost...
...mothers are, for instance, many times as likely as other women with young children to live below the poverty level. According to one study, only half of those who give birth before age 18 complete high school (as compared with 96% of those who postpone childbearing). On average, they earn half as much money and are far more likely to be dependent on welfare: 71% of females under 30 who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children had their first child as a teenager...
...popular with conservative Catholics. Brownback introduced a constitutional amendment in April to ban gay marriage and then headed to New Hampshire right after that trip, annoying some Washington social conservatives who felt he was in rush to be the first member to sponsor such legislation in this Congress and earn points with conservatives in key primary states...