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...mother Catherine Carter looks on approvingly. Jo Ann has earned all A's except for a B in phys ed, and her mother's got the report cards in her pocketbook to prove it. "I was lucky to get her into this school," says Carter, a medical secretary. King, a one-story brick building in a ramshackle area well east of Troost Avenue--Kansas City's approximate racial dividing line--offers an enriched program of classical language and related subjects such as rhetoric. "Well, not lucky--I lied. She didn't get in the first time, so I applied again...
...meantime, Buchanan is forcing the rest of the G.O.P. field to concentrate on the pocketbook issues of the unwell-to-do. Last week he was bragging to anyone who would listen: "The Republican Party is becoming the Buchanan Party." The G.O.P. Establishment didn't believe it. But they were listening hard...
...They are typical alumni, just worried about the bottom-line either for their pocketbook or what the public has to say," he said...
...right now. We have been there; we know the pain all too well." Moag went on to say that fan support was no longer enough to keep a franchise. A city requires "political courage" and a business sense of "what professional athletics means to a community's image and pocketbook." In other words, a brand-new stadium with lots of luxury boxes and P.S.L.S...
While hitting the elderly in the pocketbook, the Republicans hope to offer them a greater choice of medical plans, beyond traditional fee-for-service care and HMOS. Patients could direct government payments to provider-sponsored networks; or to plans created by large organizations like the AFL-CIO for their members; or to private insurance plans. In fact, if patients were to buy low-cost insurance that offered only catastrophic protection, the Republicans would allow them to bank the difference between their insurance premium and the average Medicare payment...