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Barnard officials were also pleased with the new contract, said Public Relations Director Sally Slate, who added that Barnard was "eager to make sure that its workers are well-paid...
...figure out that you pay a price for that money," says Dennis Kendig, a partner in the modest-size Los Angeles firm of Sachs & Phelps. "You pay in quality of life." Hard work has always been a hallmark of the legal profession, and the reservoirs of public sympathy for well-paid attorneys are no doubt a trifle shallow. But even soaring salaries can seem a poor return for years spent on the assembly line of the law. The result: some large firms now commonly lose up to one-half of their associates. On Wall Street, for instance, many defect...
...Harvard that Stockman mounted the first rung on the the ladder up to his current, ridiculously well-paid position with the head gnomes of Wall Street, Salomon Brothers. In the late '60s, Stockman, like many WASPs of his time, was in hiding from the Vietnam war. A self-professed leftie, Stockman chose the Harvard Divinity School as his hideout, but he soon fell under the sway of the smell of power...
...film's denoument concerns some rather well-paid if shady messengering for a sleazy drug dealer named Gypsy (Rudy Ramos). Too cowardly or wise to deliver his product himself, he recruits money-hungry young innocents from Quicksilver to do his dirty work for him. One delivery boy, Apache (David Harris), has already fallen prey to Gypsy's ugly side: having dared to take a cut of his action, Gypsy strikes back, hunting Apache down in his car in an inferior version of the chase scene from The French Connection...
...mavens were discovering that a rule long applied to magazines--that 1,000 New Yorker readers are more valuable than 1,000 National Enquirer readers--made sense in prime time as well. Says Tartikoff: "When you pull a tab on the St. Elsewhere audience, you find that many of them don't watch any other entertainment show on network TV. They're well-educated, well-paid people whom certain advertisers are eager to reach because they can't be reached in these numbers anywhere else on TV. So we can make a very good living off St. Elsewhere even though...