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...Fryal, 41, betrays the strain of trying to run a home during a year of anguish. She still oversees her large household with a firm hand, although providing the daily necessities is no longer a simple task. She has drawn up a stringent budget that allocates her husband's paycheck entirely for groceries and the children's clothes and medicine. Amid shortages and strikes, the simple act of buying food has turned into a time-consuming, frustrating chore. Meat is rarely served at her table; even chicken or frozen fish appears no more than once a week...
...wholeheartedly for Yale," said Sonia C. Lee '91, whose father, Hong Yung Lee, is an assistant professor at a major Connecticut Ivy League institution. Lee said she'll be rooting for her own team--"otherwise it's not a family feud"--in spite of the fact that a Yale paycheck is financing her tuition. "People are not going to be disowned because of this issue," she said hopefully...
...plunged from $33 billion to about $13 billion. "Forced to choose between housing and food, many of these families were soon driven to the streets," explains Writer Kozol. Six million households now pay at least half of their incomes for rent; for many of them, homelessness is just one paycheck away. Says Joe Carreras, a senior housing planner with the Southern California Association of Governments: "Once you fall out of the housing market, you're sliding down a greased pole...
...most out of a modest allotment. It's generally not true. A good number, maybe even a majority, are doing things that basically come very easy to them. Once, in an extraordinary fit of conscience -- just for an instant -- the basketball star Elvin Hayes actually refused his paycheck out of a sense that he hadn't earned it. After nearly decapitating Jack Nicklaus during a pro-am tournament, a wretched amateur golfer wondered with a sigh if Nicklaus ever shanked one. Softly, almost apologetically, the game's ultimate champion replied, "Three times, when...
...mother has worked full time at the state department of human services, where she processes vouchers, since before her first child was born. "Nowadays, once you start depending on that second paycheck, there's no turning back," she reports...