Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pedestal into the sort of public mess that swallowed up Gary Hart. Cisneros confessed, in an off-the-record interview with columnist Paul Thompson, published by the San Antonio Express-News, that he has been entangled in a two-year love affair with a 39-year-old married campaign worker, Linda Medlar. Said Medlar, wife of a local jeweler, in the same article: "He's the love of my life . . . We hope to be able to live out the rest of our lives together." The mayor had admitted unspecified marital "difficulties" in his 19-year marriage to high school sweetheart...
...investment tax credit, which was eliminated in the 1986 tax-reform act, should be restored -- as long as consumption taxes are levied to make up the revenue loss. Companies should receive credits for investments not only in plant and equipment but also in human capital, like spending on worker training. Perhaps a third of the Pentagon's research and development should be gradually shifted to projects with commercial value...
This September afternoon Sister is working the back roads of Socorro, a 17th century Spanish mission hamlet, mustering turnout for a meeting with an important politician. In the doorway of a cinder-block home, she embraces a key worker, Anastacia Ledesma, but wastes no time on niceties. "Cuantas personas? Ciento, maybe?" the nun asks in her novice Spanish, inquiring how ) many supporters the area can deliver to the meeting. "Doscientos," comes the reply. "Ah, muy, muy bien," exclaims Ceasar. "Four buses. This time we'll fill four buses...
Statistics like these are probably less important than personal perceptions. After the debate, Larry Kirsch, 57, a factory worker who has survived layoffs, and his wife Mearl were at the center of an argument about the local economy. Finally, Mearl turned to her friends and complained laughingly about her husband: "He's the one who has been screaming for eight years about the bad things Reagan did to us, and now he's gone all wishy-washy and is saying things aren't so bad." If that is the final verdict of west Toledo, Bush may successfully hold...
...such soul-saving shows as Zola Levitt Presents, which aims openly at persuading Jews to follow Jesus. One dubious PTL officeworker figures that to save his investment Mernick may have no choice but to foster evangelistic Christianity. "People can go anywhere for a theme park, hotel or campsite," the worker says. "Why would they want to come out here in the middle of nowhere? The reason is simple. This place is different. People come here because they want the Christian atmosphere...