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...overtaxed individuals turn to professional help. Erica Chambre, 34, the personnel director for an oil and gas company in Oakland, extricated herself from a morass of debt by disciplined effort. When her borrowings reached $40,000 on top of a $65,000 mortgage, Chambre, who was earning $35,000 a year, decided that it was time to stop. "For four months I could hardly sleep," she recalled, "worrying about the trouble I was in." Her solution was to repay the loans by working seven-day weeks for more than two years and curtailing expenses. Gone now are the twice-yearly...
...complexity, depth, psychic intensity and so on) without discharging them in explicit meanings. He wittily exploits the affinity between artist and charlatan. A symbolist with roller skates, he moves very quickly across a vast terrain of appropriated motifs, and the results are usually banal. Even in today's morass of worthless "personal" imagery, it would be hard to find a sillier painting than one in the Castelli show of a green whirlpool a la Poe with a man and his separated genitals disappearing into...
...especial by Joel Brinkley of The New York Times. Secret and important intelligence reports trickle out with suspicious regularity Unnamed sources contradict even discredit, the Administration line. Are White House aides, along with career CIA and State Department officials worried about their own futures trying to sidestep the political morass of Central America by preventing Reagan from being Reagan in Nicaragua...
...further: workers in such traditionally male jobs as trucker and accountant, for example, would no longer make 30% to 40% more than holders of traditionally female jobs like secretary and nurse. Commission Chairman Clarence Pendleton and other opponents argue that comparable worth laws would involve the Government in a morass of subjective judgments about salary considerations best left to the free market; Democratic Representative Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio, a proponent, dismisses these objections as "hysterical responses (that) detract from a reasoned public debate of sex-based wage discrimination." The draft report concludes that enforcing comparable worth laws would require...
With about 27,000 employees in a building spread over 29 acres, the Pentagon is often a managerial morass. The Defense Department signs more than 50 million contracts a year and spends some $800 million a day. Complicating matters is the rivalry among the armed services for money, material and men. Last week a group of military experts at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report calling for a restructuring of the Pentagon...