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While conceding that Northern unemployment is higher, Southerners say they need their greater share of federal spending because they have more poverty to deal with. Nearly 14% of Southern families are classified as living in poverty, compared with less than 9% in the North, where pay packets are fatter. For example, per capita income in New England averaged $6,590 in 1976, while in the South Atlantic states it averaged $5,861. Northerners reply that their higher living costs, especially for fuel and taxes, make that statistical advantage meaningless. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, a Boston family of four...
...above average. The chill will descend as far south as Florida. A moderate winter is predicted for the rest of the country-but folkloric weathermen in the Midwest cite a number of telltale signs that point in the opposite direction: bears are fat and getting fatter, woolly bears (caterpillars) have thin brown bands across their middles and are moving fast, bushy-tailed squirrels are laying in extra supplies of acorns, bark on trees is extra thick. Onions are sporting thick skins, and everyone knows: "Onion skins very tough, winter's going to be very rough." Both the Almanac...
...dried myself off and walked into the Crimson, a resume fatter than Totie Fields (an old friend) under my arm. And if it weren't for a guy named Tony, a man called Horse, and a thing called History, I wouldn't be here today...
...strike are great. One reason: United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is fighting a bruising battle to retain his post in a June election against the union's secretary-treasurer, Harry Patrick, and Lee Roy Patterson, another union official. Whoever wins, the souped-up promises of the campaign-fatter pay, expensive safety improvements-will have to be included in the union's demands and could cause coal operators to resist...
...legend, men are crushed physically and emotionally by the burden of the presidency. In real life, their cheeks get pinker, their stomachs more relaxed, their spirits higher and their pocketbooks fatter. They go around telling people how good they feel and how much they enjoy the work. They find after years of nomadic campaigning they can sit down and eat dinner (Carter calls it supper) rather regularly with their families. Some Presidents were not all that thrilled at domestic reunification. But Carter indicates...