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Princeton's Zabel projected that robust look of salubriousness. Thick legs, big chest, curly hair, you picture him quaffing a glass of milk and striding about Princeton's hillocked campus, feet sandal-shorn and nostrils flaring to gulp in the spring air. His physical vigorousness translates into an intensely competitive...
For Florida's growing colony of exiles from Central America, the dream was almost too good to be true. As indeed it is. The largest such U.S.-based operation is a fly-by-night encampment run by Jorge Gonzalez, 50, a Cuban exile who is the head of something...
Our whole motto was unity in all phases of life," Scheper adds. Which translates into housework for Paul, and a lot of football games to go to for Gigi. But that's okay, because she loves football.
Then, the same pamphlet dispenses a barrage of statistics: It quotes the Bureau of Labor as saying that unionization for clerical workers translates to an average of $47 more per week in pay; it notes that Boston's clerical workers are the fifth-lowest paid of the 15 largest U.S...
The size of deficits will largely be determined by the level of economic activity in 1982 and after. Experts estimate that every one percentage point decline in annual gross national product translates into approximately $8 billion to $10 billion in additional deficit spending because tax receipts fall off and unemployment...