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...agents from Hinckley's room at Washington's Park Central Hotel and at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., will prove more of a boon to the prosecution or the defense. Among the items agents found were a black plastic toy pistol and a Band-Aid box with a note inside reading "This plane has been hijacked!" There were also magazine and newspaper clips on the deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Among Hinckley's books was The Fan, the story of a deranged youth...
Many Congressmen and economists reject the remedy of job programs to cure unemployment. "It's like trying to put a Band-Aid on a cancer after it's already grown, instead of preventing it in the first place," says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. Observes Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution: "A federal job program inevitably turns into nothing more than an income-maintenance program, for the simple reason that when workers graduate from training programs, there are still no jobs for them. In a couple of months, 10 million people are going...
...borrowing money for the financial institution. Concludes Stuart Root, president of the Bowery Savings Bank of New York City, third largest in the nation: "All Savers are not a panacea for our industry, but then again, nobody really thought they would be. The certificates were seen as a Band-Aid when no other medicine was around...
...raised the prices of commuter tickets on Conrail and the Long Island Railroad by an average of 25%. The MTA also threatened to hike fares to $1 by mid-July unless the state legislature covered an estimated shortfall of $331 million The legislature finally approved a Band-Aid package of new taxes last week, including a .75% tax on the gross receipts of oil companies, that will raise $800 million over the next two years. But MTA Chairman Richard Ravitch is making no promises that fares will not go up again before...
...meet a man I couldn't be sure even existed." But about a month later, having grappled with the probable loneliness of the job--she may not be able even to visit home for a year--and the probable frustration of doing what she knows won't transcend "band-aid work," she decided to take the job. "It was the kind of thing I never could have forgiven myself if I didn't accept...