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...supports the proposition that policemen, nurses in public hospitals, garbagemen, and air traffic controllers have the right to eat well, to work in safe conditions, and to retain their dignity on the job, then one must also support their right to strike--without it, or without the mandatory arbitration used for public safety employees in this state--the right to unionize is meaningless. And though the air traffic controllers present an easy target, being well-paid if overworked and subjected to ulcer-inspiring stress, they will be just the start. Before long, all public employees will be facing pink slips...
Wealthier people are also packing up. "Doctors, lawyers, the well-paid professionals are going everywhere," says Miami Beach Travel Agent Paul Besser. "We're writing more first-class and deluxe trips than ever before...
Though appalled by Goldsmith's occasional intrusions, Now!'s well-paid (upwards of $54,000 for top writers) 80-journalist staff was crushed by the closure. Editor in Chief Anthony Shrimsley compared Now! to the Concorde: "A marvelous concept, marvelous design, tremendous crew, and everyone who flies it loves it, but you can't get enough passengers to make it a commercial success." As his London employees totted up their severance (perhaps as high as 56.5 million), Goldsmith saw virtue in defeat. Said...
Everyone knows that a million is not what it used to be, yet the ranks of well-paid entertainers, sportsmen and businessmen are growing. The exclusive club of executives earning more than $1 million grew from only four members in 1977 to 13 in 1978 and to 33 last year, according to the compensation consulting firm Sibson & Co. While major union wage settlements averaged an 8.8% increase, the pay of top executives climbed...
...troubled callers-child abusers, rapists, baffled homosexuals, wife beaters and "pre-orgasmic" women. "It's a soap opera that educates," says Grant, 38, who studied at Vassar and Harvard and got a Ph.D. from Syracuse. It is also a vast financial success that has made Grant a well-paid star ("a median five-figure" salary) and draws an audience of 115,000 -enough to make KABC top-rated in her time slot among more than 70 stations in the Los Angeles area...