You should have had those tonsils out two years ago. According to the Illinois Health Care Cost Containment Council, the biggest recent increase in outpatient procedure costs was in “tonsillectomy with adenoidectomy,” up from $1,437 in 1989 to $1,806 in 1990, a 26 percent increase.
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“While men tend to hold most of the top jobs on the staffs of the Illinois Congressional delegation and the staffs of Illinois’ two Senators, women are clearly dominant in lower paying positions,” according to congressional payroll records investigated by Victor M. Crown and Karen A. Nagel for Illinois Politics (January-February). But some do better than others. Women who work for Senator Paul Simon–who got a 95 percent favorable rating from the National Women’s Political Caucus–earn 66 cents for every dollar his male employees make. Ironically, women working for suburban U.S. representative Henry Hyde–who voted right only 15 percent of the time, according to NWPC–make an average of $1.14 for every dollar paid to male Hyde staffers. Also on the plus side were representatives Russo, Durbin, Porter, Yates, Bruce, Rostenkowski, Poshard, and Sangmeister.
Best marketing ploys, from Vermont’s “Seventh Generation” mail-order catalog: “If your closets are overflowing and your drawers filled to the brim…we don’t want to sell you anything else.”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
