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...lucrative if often shadowy business of buying and selling cactus plants wholesale. In summer, when demand hits its peak, a cactus trader may ship thousands of the plants in a week. They wind up in plastic pots at supermarkets or in the homes and gardens of the well-to-do, from Nagasaki to New York to Nuremberg. The trouble is that many of the plants are taken and transported illegally. Says California Botanist Lyman Benson, a leading authority on cacti of the Southwest: "The cactus family may be the most endangered species of all major groups of plants." Cactologists list...
...sure, Colwin's characters have some opening advantages. They are almost all civilized and basically decent. They do not need to worry about money. The women, in particular, share a gilded past as "the beautiful daughters of the nervous well-to-do." One remembers: "We were comfortable wherever we went, since anywhere was just like home: the same silk curtains, good oil paintings in heavy gold frames, big pantries and good food, chintz sofas, colored cooks and walnut coffee tables . . ." The girls grow out of these comfortable surroundings and into equally comfortable jobs. They become illustrators or work...
...states are making money faster than they can spend it. Texas expects to be at least $500 million in the black by 1983, and Louisiana anticipates a $1 billion surplus by then. Yet even well-to-do states may feel squeezed as Reagan begins to reduce federal spending on social programs. For states already suffering, Reagan's slashes will inflict only more pain...
Some agencies regularly send their U.S. girls to Europe to work, the way well-to-do parents once sent their daughters to finishing school. Manhattan, where fees and competition are generally twice as stiff as they are elsewhere, is the unquestioned capital of this gaudy world, and it is assumed that those with the right stuff will return there. In the meantime, says Casablancas, whose wars with the established feudalists did a lot to raise both the price and the gross receipts of modeling in Manhattan, "you send a girl over to Europe who's a little bit heavy, clumsy...
...financial: income from the sale and rental of the buildings could eventually surpass the school's annual yield on its endowment. If Eckerd's zoning request is approved, says the St. Petersburg Times, "the lovely waterfront site would become just another tax-sheltered retirement haven for the well-to-do." Amid local concern that the plan has more to do with real estate than education, St. Petersburg's planning commission has refused to approve it. That leaves the issue in the lap of the city council, which is expected to decide on March...