Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most striking of all, perhaps, is the marked drop in the auto theft rate. Back in 1974, Cambridge bore the dubious distinction of having the highest car theft rate in the country. Insurance costs on cars ran so high that it was scarcely worth owning one; in fact, a popular trick was to hire someone to steal your car so that you could then collect the insurance rate...
...Soviet militiamen guarding the American embassy on Tchaikovsky Street in Moscow stared in surprise as the chauffeured limousine pulled up. Out of his official car stepped a leading member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was ushered into the office of a ranking embassy official, who received his caller with all the ceremony and respect due one of the world's greatest thermonuclear physicists and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate...
...rally, in fact, was the closest approach to a "hearing" that Archbishop Luwum and the two ministers would ever get. Next day, Radio Uganda reported that the prisoners had been killed when the car transporting them to an interrogation center collided with another vehicle and overturned; the victims, said the broadcast, had tried to overpower the driver in an attempt to escape...
...which the debtor has an equity of $30,000 or less. Thus, a bankrupt could keep an $80,000 house on which he had a $50,000 mortgage (though he would have to keep up the payments). Texas with rare exceptions permits a bankrupt to hold on to a car and house of any value. New Jersey, on the other hand, forces the sale of all bankrupts' houses, and will let a debtor hang on to only $ 1,000 worth of furniture and clothing...
...Parkrose High School in Portland, Ore. Students pair off in simulated marriages and draw up sample family budgets. Among other things, says Allen, a former football coach, "we have the kids simulate buying a number of things on credit, ranging from household furniture and appliances to a car to the house itself. But before they purchase the items, we have them do an analysis of the different forms of credit." One result: those students who are planning real marriages soon "get depressed and even belligerent" as they learn the costs of fulfilling their dreams...