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...families. Over the past three decades, the cost to taxpayers for what Chiles dubs "the imperial former presidency" has quietly spiraled from $64,000 to $27 million this fiscal year. The Federal Government picks up the tab for pensions, offices, staffs, round-the-clock Secret Service protection, maintenance for lavish presidential libraries and a gamut of other expenses ranging from car washes to cable-TV rentals to joke writers' fees. All this, Chiles points out, even though Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon are already millionaires from lucrative memoirs, speaking engagements and television deals. Says Chiles: "We seem...
...less promising prospect for theatrical adaptation could hardly be imagined; it is difficult even to conceive of what convinced the mainstage selection committee to lavish a coveted slot and budget on so ill-conceived a venture. And in viewing the results, one is reminded, sadly, of the mathematical axiom that zero, no matter how many times, multiplied, can never equal anything but zero. A typical verse from any of Maurice Sendak's clever, malicious little tours de force--take "Stir it once, stir it twice, stir it chicken soup with rice"--means virtually nothing, and therein lies its charm. Blow...
Although such awards are small potatoes, some colleges in the group of 23 have criticized Smith and Mount Holyoke for breaking a need-only tradition. With their costs soaring to more than $12,000 a year, Ivy League schools are uneasily aware of the lures of lavish merit scholarships and are emphasizing that they will provide enough aid to cover the demonstrated requirements of any student who is accepted...
...lavish settlement will weaken the carrier's already fragile finances. In the past three years, Eastern, which hauls more passengers than any other U.S. airline, has lost $158 million and run up a long-term debt of $1.9 billion in an aggressive program to expand and modernize its fleet. Voicing "grave concern" at the cost of the pact, Chairman Frank Borman fretted: "Ordinarily, an event of this nature is cause for satisfaction and relief on the part of both parties. Unfortunately, such is not the case in this agreement...
...first Americans demands something more than mere polemic. Unfortunately, that is chiefly what Matthiessen offers. According to In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, the Indians, who have been exploited since the white man's arrival, are currently being manipulated by "huge energy consortiums" with everything from lavish handouts to hushed-up homicides for mineral rights to reservation land...