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...idea of how much money we're talking about, consider that a full-time worker making three times the minimum wage could pay for a year at Harvard--with less than $250 to spare. The cost of attending Harvard next year will exceed the non-capital-gains income of more than 37 percent of all American families...
...banking, if you've a proven track record in sales, the new Bergdorf Goodman Men's Store offers a career opportunity that is at once exciting and rewarding." Bergdorf says it swiftly received more than 100 applications for the jobs, which can reward persuasive salesmen with commissions that exceed $100,000 a year. Such incomes should help keep the former Masters of the Universe snappily attired in everything from tasseled loafers to silk cravats. As an added perk, Bergdorf is offering a 30% discount on merchandise...
...reports in the Soviet press led me to adopt far too sanguine an approach. One clue that should have alerted me to a possible cover-up was a mid-May report that several fire fighters had perished; if radiation levels in the vicinity of the Chernobyl plant did not exceed 10 to 15 milliroentgens an hour, what could have caused their deaths...
...commissioner will receive a salary of$64,000 per year, but councillors said the cost ofthe position would probably exceed $100,000 aftersupport staff was hired...
GOING, GOING . . . Thanks to flattening real estate prices, more desperate homeowners are putting their property up for auction. Bargain hunters often get so caught up in the frenzy of bidding that prices can match or exceed the expectation of sellers. This year some $20 billion worth of houses are expected to be gaveled down, roughly twice the total of a year...