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...adjusted annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEALTH: STATIC WAGES, EXCEPT FOR THE RICH | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...adjusted annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEALTH: STATIC WAGES, EXCEPT FOR THE RICH | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...exactly Audrey Hepburn, but sort of attractive in her low-rent way, she was this year's bimbo-with-an-agenda. Claiming that President Clinton had made unwanted advances toward her years ago, Jones sued him for $700,000. In a classy move, a former boyfriend supplied nude photos of her to Penthouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst People of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

Shirley and Earl McNall knew they had one hot little entrepreneur on their hands. Son Bruce was only five, and he could wipe everybody out at the Monopoly board, building hotels on all the expensive properties, leaving his mom stewing with an empty lot, say, on low-rent Baltic Avenue. Dazzled, the mother, a lab technician, and the father, a biochemistry professor at the University of Southern California, rationed Bruce's television watching and showered him with intellectual goodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bruce McNall: Fall of the Collector | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

Here's the latest Clinton plot twist: Can Dan Rostenkowski prod the big health-care bill through his Ways and Means Committee before he's indicted on low-rent financial-irregularities charges? With the fate of the entire presidency allegedly resting on the shoulders of this unlikely hero, one can only note that even Melrose Place pays some obeisance to the notion of ^ plausibility. Still, we all want to see what happens next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monitor 1600 | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

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