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Interested in keeping service running as smoothly as possible--after a very bumpy fall, epitomized by highly erratic delivery--Epps decided to bail HDNS out by co-signing with Smith for $14,000 in loans from Cambridge Trust Company and by allocating $2000 from a "discretionary fund" available to him as dean...
...they would notice a prominent ad for President Carter. The smiling President is signing a bill to give federal aid to the city in 1978. Alongside is a quote from Reagan: "I have included in my morning and evening prayers every day, the prayer that the Federal Government not bail out New York City." Urges the ad: "Reelect President Carter, a friend of America's cities...
...movie; by killing some people the audience cares about, in an early scene like this, the director can in effect throw down the gauntlet to himself. Cassavetes is not a squeamish director--he has no qualms about killing off bad guys, and more than once. But he chooses to bail out in this scene, and from that point on it is clear what kind of movie this is going...
Thurow deplores the Federal Government's efforts to bail out ailing firms like Chrysler. Rather than prop up inefficient companies, Thurow believes, Government funds should flow into fields where the U.S. has a competitive advantage over such countries as Japan and West Germany. Examples: computer chips and agriculture. At the same time, Congress should give generous assistance in retraining and relocating displaced workers in older industries like steel. Says he: "We must strengthen the economic safety net for individuals, but pull it out from under companies...
There is not much to protect the innocent. Laws permit searching without warrants, jailing without bail, trying without defense, and condemning without trial. If you look suspicious, associate with 'subversives,' or don't appeal to your neighborhood policeman, you can be seized without explanation. During one of many arbitrary street document checks, a young man was ordered by a guardsman to shave his beard. "He told me that I looked like a revolutionary, and that he'd jail me if I didn't remove it. So I shaved it--these guys are irrational but serious...