Word: belle
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Since the 1890s, the Salvation Army has made a Christmas tradition of collecting money for the needy. But the Army's shiny red kettles and bell- ringing workers are growing scarcer on the West Coast. Fearful that the bell ringers will set a precedent for other solicitors, up to half the shopping malls in California and Nevada have barred them. In protest, parishioners from nearly 100 churches in the Bay Area are boycotting some of the malls. A few owners have relented and allowed the kettles near the entrance of their stores. Nevertheless, since the kettles collect an average...
...week a special session of the legislature replaced the service tax with a 1% increase in the sales tax. "It's a victory for the people of Florida and a heck of a Christmas present," said Martinez. But the Governor's flip-flops may be costly. Said Democrat Sam Bell, chairman of the powerful house appropriations committee: "His credibility with the legislature is zero...
That frustration is leading to angry action. One day last June in Hayward, Calif., Brian Thompson, 12, spent more than two hours listening to dial-a-porn recitals. Two weeks later he sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl. The parents of both children joined in suing the Pacific Bell telephone company for $10 million, charging that dial-a-porn was responsible. "The phone company and the pornographers took away from us our rights as parents to train our child in what is right and wrong," says Brian's father Ronald Thompson. "You can't police your kids 24 hours...
Barrington Bell Jr., the jury fore man, said the panel reached its verdict "after very intense, and I mean intense, deliberations...
...fruitless, as the phone company has taken the precaution of brain-washing the American people in childhood to allow an inordinate number of rings before hanging-up in order to "be polite." As if I am going to thank the fool who politely infests my home with a grating bell for 10 uninterrupted minutes--"Thank you so much for waiting...I really couldn't decide whether or not to answer, and you gave me the time to make up my mind. I'll never forget you." You simply cannot ignore the clicks in the hope that they will go away...