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...gain by Evers's presence in the Senate race. Evers could draw enough votes away from Dantin to ruin Dantin's chances while still failing himself. This would hand the Senate spot to Cochran, who would then become the first Republican since Reconstruction to hold such a powerful political plum in Mississippi. Cochran resembles Dantin in many ways. Ideologically, the two are identical. Cochran, however, is the special pride and joy of Mississippi's powerful Country Club Set--a class of wealthy planters and businessmen who can usually fork out enough money to catapult their candidate to the top. Cochran...
What troubles Abboud now is that U.S. capitalism is not getting enough new capital. "There is a tremendous disinvestment in the economy," he says. The number of shareholders has shrunk so drastically that Wall Street's plum has become a prune. Americans are spending instead of investing, figuring as do Latin Americans that it is better to buy now because the price of everything is going to be higher tomorrow. "In consequence," adds Abboud, "big firms like A T & T can get capital, but small companies have a hard time. So the basic job-producing engine is drying...
...work for Kinder-Care at the federal minimum of $2.65 an hour. Forty percent of Mendel's 2.300 day-care employees are former teachers; many of the rest are housewives in need of extra cash. Center directors receive only $11,000 a year, but Mendel offers them a plum: their kids can attend free...
...plum: on top of a $20,750 salary, the sheriff by law gets 10% of the delinquent taxes that he collects-an annual windfall of about...
Carter supports Kahn and holds up the CAB as an example of the price-cutting benefits of competition, but the two men are not always in accord. After the President overturned the CAB's award of the Dallas-London route to Pan American and gave that plum to Braniff, the fiercely independent Kahn openly criticized the decision and seriously considered quitting...