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...former PATCO members, welcome to the private sector. Jobs that pay $30,000 a year are rare. Social Security taxes are outrageously high. Retirement plans are not so generous. Holidays aren't conveniently placed next to weekends. Vacations are shorter. You will constantly be angry as the government takes your money to pay exorbitant salaries and perquisites. We wish more government employees would join...
...bribe from FBI agents and that a bureau informant coached him to "tell anything" to the sheik. Should his appeal fail, Williams will probably resign. Expulsion, as the Senator glumly admits, would mean an unwanted "note in the history books," though it would not affect his pension-a generous $43,500 a year...
...speed the process of decay in guerrilla ranks, the Thai government offers a generous amnesty program. So far this year more than 1,000 guerrillas in the northeast have defected. Those who defect are not asked to apologize or recant. They are generally given work on government construction projects or assisted with funds gathered by local merchants. Says Lieut. General Lak Salikupt, regional commander of the Second Army: "Persuasion is always more efficient than gunfire...
...first to read, and like, the manuscript was an older struggling writer who was teaching there: Kurt Vonnegut. "A dear, dear man," says Irving of his longtime friend, "enormously decent, generous and wise." By this time John was married to Shyla, had a son and was just about making ends meet by bartending in Iowa City and selling peanuts and banners at college football games. In The Water-Method Man, a wily spoof of academe, he offered a forlorn description of the job: "I lug a large plywood board from gate to gate around the stadium. The board is wide...
...very top makeup artists, who number only about ten, can earn $500 to $1,000 a day. They are remarkably generous in sharing their innovations. "We're an exclusive club," says Tucker. "We meet whenever we can and we talk constantly on the phone, discussing new techniques and materials." Each has his own preference. Smith loves old-age makeup, and Baker is fascinated by gorillas. Westmore knows just how blood should spurt in a prizefight. Besides Raging Bull, he has done Rocky I and II and the upcoming III. "If I haven't done every fight film...