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Asked if he has a job, Mauri has been replying that he does "occasional work" but is currently unemployed. Again, not exactly. For some 25 years he has worked for the New York Times as a substitute mailer, a job that could earn him $35,000 annually if he filled...
Despite Iacocca's rejection of its overtures, the committee seems bent on continuing its quixotic mission. "He made his statement, and we take him at his word," said Committee Member Terrence O'Connell, a Washington political consultant. "Now we're going to go ahead and do what we said we...
The sun was blazing, but Fleet Street was overcast. Sports pages throughout the British Isles have been strewn with black crepe. England's footballers were jobbed in the World Cup at the hand of Maradona; the cricket team was embarrassed by India; Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was flattened by a...
Americans are digging deeper into their pockets than ever before. Last year charitable contributions in the U.S. reached a record high of some $80 billion, an 8.9% increase over 1984. As the Reagan Administration has cut back on social services, the citizenry has responded to President Reagan's call for...
"To build another orbiter when the whole purpose of the shuttle program has been thrown into question is illogical," contends Caltech's Murray. "The shuttle has become a substitute for a goal instead of a means of obtaining a goal." Murray and many other space specialists argue that manned flights...