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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better discount. Unlike most co-ops, it does not regularly send its members financial statements. In fact, in order to find out anything about the Coop's financial status you have to set up an appointment with the General Manager's secretary--not a surefire way to keep thousand of Coop members abreast of their society's doings...
...Ornstein confesses that something odd happens when all of this ambition and money come together in the 257-sq.-mi. Beltway cooker. Being the focus of national news creates an unwarranted sense of self-importance. Economic security diminishes sympathy and understanding. The concerns of Pittsburgh and Bakersfield and a thousand other places grow more and more remote...
...After studying philosophy at Princeton, the future raider spent two years in medical school, but quit when he realized that he was not enjoying the work--and becoming a bit of a hypochondriac to boot. After a stint in the Army at Fort Sam Houston, he used a few thousand dollars won in barracks poker games to get started on Wall Street. He made $50,000 in the bull market of 1961, then lost it just as quickly when stocks tumbled. To this day he is wary of investing in the market. Says he: "I can't stand it when...
...federal and, students should give up stereos, cars, and three-week vacations at the beach. It should hardly be necessary to point out that those who would be hit the hardest by the proposed cuts would have little luck selling the above-mentioned objects for some ten or twelve thousand dollars, even if they had them...
...system was to help those most in need Apparently, it did not occur to him that a $4000 cap might hurt those poor enough to need more than $10,000 in aid--not those in the upper-middle class who require only a few thousand dollars...