Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extra cash is needed. The Senator makes only his regular salary of $44,600, plus some money for speaking appearances (his normal fee: $1,000). Like many other liberal politicians in Washington, Mondale sends his children to private schools. In Mondale's case, all of the schools are integrated. Son Teddy, 18, is an avid dirt-track motorcycle racer. Eleanor, 16, owns a palomino quarter horse named Sunny, and together they have won an impressive array of ribbons at horse shows. William, 14, is into football, tennis, wrestling and lacrosse...
Obvious Symptoms. Good questions, other doctors agree. Though regular checkups are important for spotting health problems in youngsters and the elderly or in people with obvious symptoms of illness, they appear to be largely unproductive for the vast majority of the population. For most adults, write Drs. Donald M. Vickery and James F. Fries in a health guide called Take Care of Yourself (Addison-Wesley; $9.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback), "even the most elaborate checkups ... do not detect early and treatable diseases with any regularity." Dr. Russell Roth, a longtime Erie, Pa., urologist and former A.M.A. president, concurs. In 35 years...
...other free society outside Scandinavia. Swedes enjoy free public education through college, four weeks' annual vacation and comprehensive retraining programs if they want to switch careers. On the average, Swedish workers take 22 days per year of sick leave (for which they get 90% of their regular salary) and pay $3.40 at most for each visit to an out-patient clinic. On retirement at age 65, an industrial laborer earning $11,250 annually is entitled to a pension of $8,726. In pursuit of new ways to ease the Angst of life, a local politician actually proposed that...
...common-sense demeanor to make Serena an appropriately righteous foil to Bess. Larry Marshall's Sportin' Life could use a touch more evil but is admirable in his dandified elusiveness. The depth of this cast is suggested by the presence of the veteran contralto Carol Brice, a regular on the concert scene since the 1940s, in the minor role of a neighborhood scold named Maria...
Imagine a vast investment trust, say $1.5 billion or so, that each year takes in hundreds of millions of dollars in small, but regular, tax-deductible cash contributions. Fantasize further that the trustees, with impunity, sink the money into anything they like-the pet projects of some dear friends, for example -while at the same time cutting out of the kitty many of the fund's supposed beneficiaries. Now let imagination truly soar: the trust's investment income is all taxfree...