Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Upper-income home owners have not been severely affected by the col lapse of the mortgage market. The wealthy still trade $100,000 houses and co-op apartments among themselves - though sellers sometimes have to ac cept paper payment in the form of private mortgages from buyers who cannot get bank financing. Large corporations ease the financial pains of executives who are transferred from one part of the country to another. When Olin Corp. moved Sales Representative Geoffrey Belanger and his family from Old Bridge, N.J., to Boston recently, it gave him an interest-free loan of $13,000, representing...
...effective moments come when he makes a mockery of the white "attempts" at jazz. At first he cuts away from the genteel party to street scenes of lower class blacks accompanied by some appropriately blue jazz tunes. Then he wickedly splices to a serene snow scene with an unperturbed upper crust executive getting off a suburban local; next, he cuts even deeper to a white woman nonchalantly trimming the white locks of her baby poodle. All this, to a background of pristine Brubeckian pop, a cruel contrast to the rest of the film's dynamic, gutsy soundtrack...
That was a fitting admonition for a President who is energetically dealing with problems on several fronts. Last week he proposed a cautious 31-point remedy for the nation's economic ills that included a controversial 5% tax surcharge on middle and upper incomes (see THE ECONOMY). He underscored his desire for detente by meeting for the first time with a Communist leader, Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek. He took an unusual midnight ride with several Cabinet members to Andrews Air Force Base to demonstrate wholehearted support of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger by seeing...
Dutch Cleanser, Jane (Carole Shelley), who treats dust spots as germs. Her husband Sidney (Larry Blyden) is a shopkeeper who seems destined for smaller things. Their guests arrive. Ronald (Richard Kiley) is an upper-class banker of such genteel indifference that he reads a washing-machine manual while Sidney smarmily courts...
...conferees did agree, however, to place upper limits on both private donations and candidate expenditures in Senate and House campaigns. Candidates for the Senate could spend $100,000 in primary elections or 80? per voter in their state, whichever amount is greater; they could spend $150,000 in general elections or 12? per voter. In New York, for example, the 12? would allow about $1.5 million (in his successful 1970 campaign, New York Senator James Buckley spent $1.1 million in the general election). The same limitations would apply to House candidates in the six-states that have only one Congressman...