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...sneak them in after the teacher left and check on them every 30 minutes or so." She finally quit last February and slipped onto the welfare rolls. She applied for state child-care assistance, only to learn there were 3,000 others on the waiting list. Frustrated, she returned to work this month. "Don't ask me how I'm going to manage," she says...
...deposit that's killing the working poor," says Mary Lee, an attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty. "You're talking about $1,200 even in the cheapest neighborhoods." The waiting list for public housing approaches 17,000, according to Leila Gonzalez-Correa, executive director of the Los Angeles housing authority, and the monthly turnover is only about...
...Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker revisits this pith and pathos more grandiloquently but less methodically than John Keats' 1970 volume You Might As Well Live, on which Frewin substantially relies. Just how much is hard to tell, for the new book has neither footnotes nor a chapter-by-chapter list of sources, and its sense of chronology is, to put it politely, approximate. What Frewin adds is a culling of choice Parkeriana, a well- considered if clumsily executed effort to evoke the pop-culture context of her times and a brief, provocative assessment of her talents. Parker was, after...
Following those dots there should be a partial list of the 128 shows that Abbott has directed, produced, acted in or written, in whole or part: On Your Toes, Pal Joey, On the Town, Where's Charley?, Call Me Madam, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Fiorello! and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum...
While Volcker fished, Baker, along with Secretary of State George Shultz (himself an international economist) and Treasury Secretary Baker pondered alternatives. Greenspan's name topped their list. Second came Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead, 65, a well-known expert on international monetary matters; before joining the State Department he was a highly successful investment banker at the Manhattan-based firm of Goldman Sachs. Third on the list was Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Shultz and James Baker discreetly sounded out the two top choices about their availability...