Dear Abby Advice on Love and Family Stresses
A 55 year old seeks guidance about a love affair with a widowed woman who expects costly gifts and social signals of care. The letter includes his doubts about generosity and fairness in the arrangement. Additional notes cover wedding thank you cards and a mother in law who uses relatives to check in, with Abby’s blunt, practical responses.
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Abby
Blatt Denies Halt on SCE&G Rate Increase
U S District Judge Solomon Blatt Jr refused to restrain SCE&G from implementing a planned rate hike. The move raises 13 percent electricity and 22 percent gas increases on Sunday under a preapproval law. Taxpayers Association challenged constitutionality, while both sides permitted Blatt to remain on the case despite past ties to the utility.
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Columbia
U.S
Solomon Blatt Jr
South Carolina Electric and Gas Co
Sce&g
South Carolina Taxpayers Association
South Carolina Public Services Commission
PSC
Blatt
Guardsmen Plead Innocent To Hiring Killer Plot
Five Coast Guardsmen pleaded innocent in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to murder an antinarcotics investigator. Prosecutors cited tapes and a $100 down payment to an undercover fake killer, with bail set at $50,000 each. The defendants, stationed at Governors Island, include Timothy Keen Roger Rawson Roger Le Sueur Timothy McDonald and James McGough.
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NEW York
Manhattan
U.S. District Court
U.S. Atty
Jeffrey Harris
Coast Guard
Governor's Island
New York Harbor
Seaman
Timothy L. Keen
West Columbia
S.C
Roger D. Rawson
Panama City
Fla
Roger C. le Sueur
Canby
Ore
Thomas Sees Need For Correctional Reform
South Carolina LEAP director Lee M. Thomas argues the crime rise stems from missing pre trial intervention and investigation. He calls the pre sentence investigation nearly non existent and describes the adult corrections system as fragmented and quasi non systemic.
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Lee M. Thomas
LEAP
South Carolina
Thomas
Teachers Need Economic Boost Says SCEA Leader
The president of the South Carolina Education Association urged major improvements in teachers economic welfare in Columbia. He called for higher pay better benefits and stronger salary scales for public school instructors statewide.
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SCEA
Columbia
South Carolina Education Association
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