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...reality." Part of the new reality is that inflation is Public Enemy No. 1, that it is persistent and pervasive, and that it has built up such terrifying momentum in the U.S. as to be unstoppable, for the moment, unless the nation reduces the roughly 4%-per-year economic growth rate that it had come to consider normal...
...United States. The people in the pro circuit haven't shown enough interest in the American player," complained Shep Messing. That was six years ago, before the Bronx-born, Harvard-educated goalie became famous for eating glass, keeping a pet boa constrictor, posing nude for a Viva centerfold and playing on last year's championship New York Cosmos soccer team. Messing, 28, is no longer upset, having just signed a $100,000 per-year contract with the fledgling Oakland Stompers, making him the highest-paid American soccer player in history. "I didn't start playing soccer until...
Financial assistance comes from a discretionary fund consisting of a $400 per-year stipend established by the class of 1922 and a $25,000 donation from the class of 1937, however, these funds may not be used for a club's ordinary operating expenses, but "only for special occasions," Watson said...
Even a successful job search can exhaust a person's resources. Charles Kent Evans, 48, lost a $25,000-per-year job as vice president of Delta, Inc., a manufacturing firm in Jonesboro, Ark. Looking for a new post, he was willing to accept a cut to as low as $9,000. He sent out 100 resumes, listed himself with five employment agencies, got written recommendations from his Senators, J. William Fulbright and John McClellan. Still, it took him 18 months to find work, as director of the Arkansas State Nurses Association. During his ordeal, he depleted his life...
...surprise to the conference planners. Several preliminary U.N. meetings had been held to work out a detailed draft of a "plan of action." The plan called for a reduction of birth rates that would be proportionate to a country's population. This would slow down the present 2%-per-year growth rate that experts believe will double the present 3.9 billion world population by the year 2009. The plan also proposed that governments should provide the education, information and means for family planning, if the families so desire. The plan seemed tame enough...