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...contract originally ratified by the union in a close vote called for wage increases averaging nearly $1000. Senior workers, who received comparatively large longevity bonuses, were happier with the pact than the city's younger workers...
...there is little wistfulness in his conversation now. The Galesburg, Ill., native seems perfectly happy with his interest in a new kind of courts. Campbell's coach at Northwestern, Rich Falk, had no doubt that his top player would be happier here. "It was always a dream of his to go to Harvard Law School and he didn't want to have anything side-track...
...giddy. In the four years since the Democrats sighed amen to Jimmy Carter, New York has reduced its debt (considerably), improved its cultural life (remarkably), raised its housing costs (out-of-sightedly), increased its industry (selectively), supported a new mayor (mostly), cleaned up after itself (doggedly) and become a happier place to live (generally). There are naysayers (naturally) and data to justify their attitude. But most New Yorkers agree that the place is fit as a fiddle again, and only a few believe that the fiddle is Nero...
...role was never that of a fighter in the field. Rather, he was an exclusively political operator who specialized in recruiting, motivating and directing from a desk the tactical planning of the freedom struggle. To this day, some of his comrades say that he would have been happier as a front-line commander. This underlying frustration, as they see it, accounts for his military taste in dress (olive fatigue uniforms and combat boots), his ready identification with "the boys in the bush," as the guerrilla fighters still call themselves, and his continued political aggressiveness...
...week unemployment checks and Ed's $800 per month take-home pay as a production supervisor for a weather-stripping and auto-trim manufacturing company. Previously their joint income was about $35,000 per year. The biggest problem: $20,000 in consumer debts, accumulated in happier times while both held well-paying jobs. Says Ed plaintively: "We fell into the credit trap. We certainly won't do that again...