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...With its hard-luck history, the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) has richly earned the unhappy nickname of Whoops. Construction on three of the five units in the state system's massive nuclear-power project has either been postponed or canceled, and a fourth unit is endangered. Last week things got even worse. The Washington State Supreme Court unexpectedly ruled that nearly 30 public utilities did not have to pay their share of the $2.25 billion owed WPPSS for building costs. The decision pushed the system a step closer to the ultimate whoops!-the largest municipal default...
...sure, not everyone falls to pieces because of the loss of a job or even a spouse. While surveying unemployed workers in the Detroit area, University of Michigan Researcher Louis Ferman found one hard-luck victim who had been successively laid off by the Studebaker Corp. in 1962 when it was about to fold, a truck manufacturer that went under in the 1970s, and more recently during cutbacks at a Chrysler plant. By all accounts, "he should have been a basket case," says Ferman, "yet he was one of the best-adjusted fellows I've run into." Asked...
White House people can be sent up the wall when Dan Rather of CBS reports the latest sign of economic recovery but adds that there are still a lot of people out of work-and then switches to someone in an Ohio unemployment line with a hard-luck story. Sometimes CBS does sound like a stuck needle on the subject, but it might answer, why not? Perhaps this is at the heart of the good news/ bad news campaign that Ronald Reagan is waging against TV. But network people think the President all wrong in asserting that good news makes...
...time he was 20 he was sleeping on the beach in Venice, Calif., using his amplifier as a pillow. There was not much else to do with it; work was short. He tried San Francisco, then went back home to Texas for "a stretch of riding the rails with hard-luck guys." He wound up in New York City, where he landed a job playing guitar in a Texas-style musical at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. He pulled down wages of $60 a week and slept on the Staten Island Ferry...
...ring, he was even more notorious for dishing it out at home. Half brutal patriarch, half petulant child, he played the suspicious sadist to his wife Vickie, his brother Joey, his best friend Pete Petrella. Pete stood up to Jake's insults, and stood by as his hard-luck friend; later, under the name Peter Savage, he helped Jake write his autobiography and served as consulting producer to the Raging Bull company. In the film, Pete's history is subsumed into the character of Joey (Joe Pesci): the fighter's manager and punching bag, his Sancho Panza...