Word: reporter
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While longtime homeowners are sitting on an ever growing nest egg, which they can tap for their next house or other purchases, first-time buyers have few assets and too little salary to catch up. In a particularly gloomy report, the National Association of Realtors found last fall that the average potential first-time buyer had only 77% of the income needed to qualify for the mortgage on a starter home. Current homeowners, by contrast, had 112% of the income required for a mortgage on a median-priced home. Said Ira Gribin, president of the Realtors association: "The first-time...
...local angle. In the case of Bundy, the local hook was Caryn Campbell, a 24-year-old nurse from Dearborn, Mich., whom Bundy murdered in Colorado in 1975. But what was second nature to most journalists was yet another horrible reminder for the Campbell family. "Any article or news report about Ted Bundy always included Caryn's name and the fact that 'her nude and frozen body was found in a snowbank,' " wrote her sister, Nancy McDonald, in a letter published in the Detroit News last week. "It's been extremely difficult for us to accept Caryn's loss...
...nascent service-charge movement began with Congress, which started in 1982 to clamp down on one of the country's biggest tax dodges: the failure to report billions of dollars in tips. Laws now require restaurateurs to monitor waiters' tips for the Internal Revenue Service, as well as pay federal unemployment and Social Security taxes on such income. "It's a lot of extra work. We have to spend time keeping records because the Government doesn't want to," said Don O'Neill, the owner of the Spring House restaurant in Pittsford...
...report, titled Crossroads in American Education, evaluated 1.4 million students ages nine, 13 and 17 over the past two decades. On the positive side, it found that students have improved in "their ability to do simple computation, comprehend simple text and exhibit knowledge of everyday science facts." The performance gap between whites and racial minorities seems to be closing, although it remains "unacceptably large." By the end of high school, blacks and Hispanics still lag three to four years behind white students in achievement...
...study recommends few solutions that are not already part of the education-reform movement: more homework, higher performance standards, more parental involvement and more work in core subjects. But the report also suggests that tests and curriculum be recast to make students analyze what they know rather than just repeat facts and rules. Without such changes, it says, U.S. graduates may soon be unable to compete with those from other countries for the world economy's increasingly complex jobs. "Recent improvements represent a significant national accomplishment," says Gregory Anrig, president of the Educational Testing Service, which administered the study...