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...private school fundraisers have shown, alumni are willing to donate time or money to the alma mater--aware that drunken cheers at the Homecoming game are inadequate support. For civic activists and businessmen, the interest is more concrete: graduates that can't read a ballot or sign a paycheck don't make good citizens or productive workers. These diverse groups share a common interest in making the schools run better, and could organize as Friends of, say. South Plantation High School...
...write a good lead or tell the difference between comptroller and controller? More important, will she ever get her Big Story into print? In the end, she begins to grasp the cynic's first rule of journalism: the most important byline is the one on the paycheck...
...officials used a computer search to identify 46,000 federal employees among the defaulters. Result: 5,000 promptly anted up $2.3 million. Now the remaining 41,000 are being told they must pay up in 30 days or their wages will be garnisheed at the rate of 15% per paycheck (25% if they sue the Government and lose). To pressure nonfederal debtors, the Government is negotiating a plan with credit bureaus that would place a black mark on the credit ratings of citizens who are lagging in repaying their Government loans. That measure might go into effect...
Brooks, however, puts forth an additional reason for his hefty paycheck: he wears two hats. Not only did he net about $82,000 for his UHS job in 1981-1982, he says, but he also drew $46,000 from his newly endowed professorship of Surgery, of which he set aside $20,000 for retirement. That chair was donated by and named after former patient Frank Sawyer, who Brooks says "likes me because I've kept him alive for some time...
...describes as "one of the best deals in the industry today." The agreement gives Pryor the chance to write, produce and act in four films over the next five years, with total control unless he goes over budget. He will also star in three more pictures for an additional paycheck in the uptown neighborhood of $ 15 million. His first project, The Charlie Parker Story, based on the life of the great jazz saxophonist, is due to start shooting in October. It will be followed by Double Whoopee, reuniting Pryor with Funnyman Gene Wilder. The poolroom "stroker from Peoria...