Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picketed the company's Los Angeles factory and demanded that the down-and-out dolls be recalled. SherStuff, recognizing the value of free publicity, respectfully declined. The dolls, which sell for $45 and up, mean no offense to the homeless, said Designer Ryan Gourley, 33. "I live in Laguna Beach. Half my friends look like that...
...Gulf Coast of Texas was never a hotbed of anarchist agitation. But that was before voters in the tiny resort town of Crystal Beach (est. pop. 1,200) decided that rather than fight city hall, they ought to get rid of it. And so they did, voting 314 to 245 earlier this month to abolish the local government. Within hours after the city's only polling place closed, revelers had torn down the green-and-white Crystal Beach highway signs along Texas Route 87 and taunted lame-duck local police officers, who could no longer enforce the town...
Despite the civic caterwauling, Crystal Beach will still have a local government. It is now an unincorporated area administered by Galveston County, as are neighboring communities along the Bolivar Peninsula. The problem is that Galveston officials say they cannot afford to provide more than 25% of usual city services. Police protection has been reduced to Lowry and a lone sheriff's deputy in a patrol car. That is not much law-and-order for a blue- collar resort town whose summer population swells to 20,000. As County Commissioner Eddie Barr put it, "I can see 12,000 drunks shooting...
Another man who was auditioning said he "was almost cast as an extra in the beach scene for Jaws--this time I'm looking for a real part...
Most people hate to fill out an income tax return; Tommy Robinson must be able to do it in his sleep. IRS investigators say Robinson, a $170-a-week maintenance man in West Palm Beach, Fla., filed 350 fraudulent tax returns this year, claiming $1.5 million in refunds, one of the largest such scams ever uncovered by the IRS. Brought before a magistrate last week, Robinson, 30, muttered something about a "misunderstanding." If he is convicted, the misunderstanding could cost him $100,000 in fines and 50 years in prison...