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...dollars is a lot of money, especially to military spouses (mostly women) who are now left with marital partners overseas. At the same time when many young women are taking financial-counseling courses in emptiedout Army forts, when women who have never written a check must finally care for household expenditures, when parents in the army can't do anything with their children but send them to relatives in distant towns, when some wives are eights months pregnant, others newly married, and others can't speak English, sixty dollars for a teddy bear appears a bit inconsiderate, a bit frivolous...
...coordinator, Adiele said she hopes to make the group "a household name on the Harvard campus." Adiele said she wishes to "collaborate with a lot of other campus groups on addressing social concerns...
...magazine was nominated two years ago for a National Magazine Award, and Utne has plans to increase circulation to 500,000 by 1995. The readers are the kind that advertisers slaver over -- average household income nearly $70,000, 80% college graduates and 62% professionals or managers -- but success carries an inevitable cost. Some of the magazine's early quirkiness is gone, and a few signs of middle-age complacency are appearing. Although Esprit clothing ads have not yet overwhelmed plugs for homeopathic remedies, the Reader is almost obsessive in its baby boomerism, with recent covers on dream houses, good schools...
...time when real estate prices were rising relentlessly. While consumer spending grew no faster in the 1980s than it had in the previous two decades, consumers were forced to borrow with a vengeance to make up for eroding income. As a result, the total debt of the average U.S. household rose from the equivalent of 77% of annual income in 1980 to 94% this year, a postwar high...
...loans allow 60 months to pay, instead of the traditional 36 to 48 months. Credit-card holders can pay as little as 1.65% of their outstanding balance each month, while home-equity loans are drawn out to as much as 15 years. As a result, the portion of household income devoted to debt payments is roughly the same today, at 13.6%, as it was in 1970, at 13.5%. At the same time, many householders still have a cushion of equity in their homes that was built up in the 1980s, despite the current decline in real estate values in some...