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...morale, was more than impressive. Traditionally, the Olympics have lost money. In 1976 Montreal was left with a $1 billion debt, and Canadian taxpayers are still paying off the loss. This year, for the first time, the Games received almost no government funds and ended up with an unimaginable surplus of $215 million --and the sum could reach $250 million by June. To do this, Ueberroth mustered a force of 72,000, about half of them volunteers. Despite the Soviet boycott, the Games became one of the greatest athletic spectacles in history...
...some women having lunch. The chat was pleasantly routine until one of the ladies asked about possible salary increases. Ueberroth, the unsalaried volunteer, turned cold and snapped: "You shouldn't be working here if you don't understand what we're trying to do." Later when the enormous Olympic surplus of $215 million was announced, Ueberroth and his committee were accused of poor mouthing about a possible shortage of funds. Of course, just weeks before the Games, Ueberroth's insistence that there would be at least a $15 million profit despite the Soviet boycott was greeted with great skepticism...
...face on the wall has been upgraded with a new portrait by J. Anthony Wills, and Rosalynn Carter will soon join those ranks when her picture is hung. Calvin Coolidge, in oil, steadfastly watches over the Cabinet Room, although Reagan has yet to match him in number of surplus budgets (Coolidge had five) or tax cuts (three...
...pieces of mail per year, 39,000 fewer than in 1970 when it processed 85 billion pieces. But the average annual pay and benefits for postal workers have gone up from $8,878 to $28,416 in the past 14 years. Even though the USPS made a $1.5 billion surplus in the three years since the last increase, it has slipped $593 million into the red in the past eight months...
...suggest that an individual's death would not diminish but rather enhance everybody's life, since the more who die off, the more space and materials there will be for those who remain. Before his conversion, Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable...