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Some students make pocket money waiting on tales, some work dorm crew, some push inflects into the hands of are a shoppers. A select few, however, get paid for less strenuous work. They take drugs...

Author: By Margaret C. Ervin, | Title: Another Day at the Office | 12/5/1984 | See Source »

Senior guard Bob Ferry tonight could join a select group of Harvard men's basketball standouts who have scored 1000 career points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ferry Could Join 1000-Club Tonight | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

...uncertainty should begin to clear up this week. The Republican Senate majority will elect a new leadership Wednesday, so the White House will at least know with whom it will have to negotiate in the upper chamber. The Democrats controlling the House, however, may take a bit longer to select a Budget Committee chairman. In any case, though Congress has the final budgetary say, it will wait for a lead from Reagan - just as his own Administration is now doing. At budget-cutting time, it gets lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plunging into the Red Ink | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...truly wealthy, the top 1% of customers who receive so-called private banking. At this level, officers will provide almost any financial service imaginable, from stock brokerage to letters of introduction for a foreign business deal. The moneyed customers of Manhattan's U.S. Trust, which caters to a select 5,000 depositors, have been treated to private lectures on such subjects as Persian carpets and fine wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash with a Lot of Class | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...theater tickets. The bank, which is situated at the Texas Medical Center, decided in 1978 to devote itself entirely to doctors and other wealthy customers. Says Chairman Donald Neuenschwander: "You can't be all things to all people. But I can be all things to the people I select." The bank deliberately discourages lower-income consumers by charging unusually high fees. Example: $30 for a bounced check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash with a Lot of Class | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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