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...number of homeless individuals seeking shelter has grown too, from 2,000 a day in 1978 to 7,400 a day now, in part because of an apartment shortage so severe that there is a ten-year waiting list for public housing. Since the $270-a-month housing allowance from welfare will not cover the cost of a New York apartment, the city absurdly winds up spending as much as $1,470 a month to put up the homeless in flea-bitten welfare hotels. Buffalo, by contrast, has 450 beds for 300 homeless, including Robert ("Pastor Bob") Timberlake's brand...
Neighboring farmers split the purchase price of expensive field machinery. And in Chicago, federal prosecutors claimed last week, at least five lawyers took the cooperative-payment approach to handle a local judge's monthly bribe. The lawyers who came up with the $2,000-a-month retainer between 1981 and 1983, said U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, were members of a "bribery club." In return for the alleged payoffs, the judge made them court-appointed counsel for unrepresented defendants, often drunken drivers-and then granted acquittals...
...depression at a private Southern California mental hospital. Pancoast, who held a series of minor show-business jobs, helped Morgan gather material for her palimony suit. After she lost the case and was forced to sell her jewelry and Mercedes, he split the rent on her $1,000-a-month apartment in North Hollywood...
...unprecedented problems. So many curious visitors want to witness the economic miracle of Shenzhen firsthand that the government has had to erect a metal fence, complete with patrol road and sweeping arc lights, along the length of the zone's 54-mile border. Workers in the cities, whose $40-a-month wage used to be twice as high as that of the average farmer, must now watch uneducated villagers take home $400 a month. Jealous, or "red-eyed," party cadres vent their resentment against prosperous peasants by resorting to extortion or exploitation...
...house visit to install a phone would go from $10 to $12. The connection to the central office would jump from $25 to $50. Inside-wire hookup would go from $28.50 to $36, and phone-jack installation from $9 to $14. In addition, the company wants 1½%-a-month interest on bills not paid within 30 days...