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...discoveries have significant implications for gas consumers nationwide as well as for Louisiana, where one worker in twelve draws his paycheck from an energy company. A recent report to the Governor of Louisiana estimated that 85% of the state's potential oil-and gas-producing deposits have not yet been drilled, but most of the unexplored reserves are very deep and difficult to find, as in the Tuscaloosa Sand. There the wells are four times as deep as the average U.S. well. Drilling one costs about $5 million if it is a producer, almost as much...
...decision, especially if they hold a middle-or high-level job that cannot easily be matched in another city. Rand Corp. Demographer Peter Morrison notes that 41% of all married women in America are now working, nearly double the figure of a generation ago. "As the number of two-paycheck families increases," he says, "it is reasonable to assume that migration rates will continue to decline...
...press covers the new economics voraciously and impetuously. Details of Catfish Hunter's contract with the Yankees made staid front pages. Sports sections ring with the dull strife of labor negotiations. A hundred newspapers run performance summaries of what they call baseball's Millionaires' Club. The paycheck appears to have become more important than the batting average. The fans read. The fans respond. Alms for the owners...
...lethal spikes and cheery abandon, it is Joe DiMaggio gliding around second base without ever losing his cap, it is Willie Mays soaring through center field space, snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards his head, wanting to bail out but afraid to do anything but take a big man's cut and slice the air as the rainbow follows down and away for strike...
About a dozen incidents have come to Thornburgh's attention. A Los Angeles woman, fired by her employer, made a dozen copies of her last paycheck and cashed them all; an East Coast bank was taken for a total of $25,000 when someone cashed copies of a check at 13 different branches; a Washington, D.C., man drove away with a $10,000 Cadillac bought with a copy of a cashier's check...