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...discussed at the convention. The dominant opinion there was that most men pay full child support, although one speaker disagreed at a workshop. Before a skeptical audience, Darryl Larson, an assistant district attorney for Oregon's Lane County, said, "Nonsupport is a tragedy rampant in America -- 60% to 80% quit paying after the first two years." Indeed, the Census Bureau reports that in 1983 only 50% of the women who were supposed to receive child support got the full amount...
...strength of Government contracts, issued stock publicly for the first time in August 1983. Nofziger and his partner Mark Bragg, who had been retained by Wedtech as public relations consultants, had each received 22,500 shares of the stock, then worth $360,000 at $16 per share. Jenkins quit the White House in May 1984, began consulting for Wedtech in October 1985, and now is the company's Washington representative...
...President may have been stung by the poor results of his stumping. When staffers greeted him with a sustained ovation at the Old Executive Office Building last week, Reagan quipped, "Based on my previous experience, I ought to quit right now." Even though Reagan's efforts did not preserve the Republican Senate majority, several of the more mediocre G.O.P. candidates would certainly have lost by larger margins if the President had not campaigned for them...
...food companies and soapmakers that had grown accustomed to undivided attention from the ad agencies. Now that the merger mania is over, many clients are passing loud and painful judgment on the results. Their verdict so far: bigger is not necessarily better. An unprecedented parade of coveted clients has quit the two supergroups for smaller agencies. One such advertiser is RJR Nabisco, which took away $32 million in accounts (example: Fleischmann's margarine) from Omnicom and $96 million from Saatchi & Saatchi/Ted Bates. Declared RJR Nabisco Chairman J. Tylee Wilson, speaking at an advertising convention two weeks ago in Virginia...
...pleasing to think that the Mets never quit, even in the sixth game, when, like the Red Sox in the play-offs, they were down to a last strike. But the accompanying image is of Team Leader Keith Hernandez making the second out in that 5-3 tenth inning and going directly to the clubhouse for a resigned beer. Manager Davey Johnson was left in the dugout banging out a cold requiem with the back of his head against the stone wall...