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Some of the jobless who stayed put are struggling to cope. From the Detroit suburb of Hazel Park, Larry Hampton, 26, sets out once or twice a week in his pickup truck to search the streets for scrap. Sheet metal brings a penny a pound; cast iron $45 a ton. On a good day, Hampton earns $15, and it keeps him busy. "I've just got too many bills and not enough money to pay them," says Hampton, who lost his job in a machine shop last November. "It's scary...
...woes, Oregon has an unemployment rate of 11.4%; Washington has 11.1%. By the middle of last month, 19,000 of the region's 102,000 sawmill employees had been laid off, while another 41,000 were working curtailed shifts. "It's like Chinese water torture," says John Hampton, chairman of Hampton Affiliates, a Portland-based logging company. "There's been no relief." Two weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service in Portland announced that it would have between 800 and 1,000 new job openings over the next three years; 18,642 applications flooded...
...Reagans were hit with hurricane force by the shootings of Pope John Paul II and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, something beyond their imaginations even after Ronald Reagan himself was wounded. They were lofted to heights of delight by Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton, two entertainers at the White House who took them way back when...
Seventh-place finisher Fernando Branz of Boston College, and Dartmouth's Keith Hampton, who took tenth, were the other individual qualifiers. Hampton will be the only Ivy Leaguer competing in the national championships...
Perhaps most of the world's gossip-both macro and micro-is done for the interest and entertainment of it. At certain dinner parties in Georgetown and Beverly Hills and East Hampton (cannibals' picnics, nights of the long knives), the gossip is a combination of dispassionate vivisection and blood sport: reputations are expertly filleted and the small brown pits of egos are spit out decorously into spoons and laid at the edge of the plate...