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...have provided many of the elderly with a sense of security that their own parents never enjoyed and that they will not relinquish without a fight. The median income of couples 65 and over in 1986 was about $22,000, which can go a long way when mortgages are paid up, children have left home, and there are few large purchases, such as appliances, to worry about. A 1984 congressional report on aging concluded, "Today . . . the act of retirement alone is no longer the source of poverty, isolation, and poor health it once...
...newsman who served as Ronald Reagan's political director until January 1982. After a 16-day trial, a federal jury in Washington found Nofziger guilty of illegally contacting the White House for three clients of his "communications" firm. They were: New York City's scandal-plagued Wedtech Corp., which paid Nofziger's agency $1 million to help secure an Army small- engine contract; Fairchild Republic Co., which paid his firm $25,000 to promote continued federal funding of A-10 antitank aircraft; and the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, a maritime union that retained him ! at $90,000 a year...
...Noriega's role in protecting the money shipments, Rodriguez claimed, the Panamanian general received about $10 million a month from the cartel. "I paid him -- in ball-park figures -- between $320 million and $350 million from 1979 to 1983," Rodriguez testified. In exchange, he maintained, he was given not only the run of Panama's airports and banking system but also the identities of U.S. drug agents and the schedules of U.S. Coast Guard and Navy drug-surveillance vessels. Rodriguez, 36, is now serving 43 years in prison...
Back in 1928, Coca-Cola sent off 1,000 cases of its "official soft drink" on the ship taking the American team to the Amsterdam Games. Probably seemed like a grand gesture at the time. This year, just for the privilege of calling itself the official soft drink, Coke paid a cool $3 million. The Olympics went to Los Angeles in 1984, learned all about how to cut deals and sell fantasy, and made a $215 million profit. The organizers of the Calgary Games have merely taken a leaf (a maple leaf, of course) from the Los Angeles book...
Official suppliers, which paid $500,000 each for the designation, are profitably promoting their contribution. The athletes consequently are feasting on meats provided by Canada Safeway, eating bread baked by Weston Foods and spreading it with Skippy peanut butter or Hellmann's mayonnaise from Best Foods. They sleep on Simmons mattresses and stoke up on Crispy Crunch candy bars, made by a Weston subsidiary. Any photographs commissioned by O.C.O. will be shot with Canon cameras...