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...what has Finch done for the poor people of the state as their governor? He has channeled almost all of his energy into a campaign to force his gubernatorial succession bill through the legislature, and has pressed for a uniform $20 car tag bill (which ironically would help wealthy people with expensive cars more than anyone else). He has replaced competant state employees with his political hacks. He has used federal funds intended for social development programs to expand his personal staff. The list could...
...Reginald Eaves, as the city's first black public safety commissioner in 1974, white critics were quick to charge cronyism. Eaves, a lawyer, didn't make matters easier by hiring a drug addict as his secretary, ordering an $800 love seat for his office and a luxury car for his travels around the city. But Eaves also proved a highly effective and popular official, cutting violent personal crimes by 10% and drastically curbing cases of police brutality...
...pattern of random terror continued for nearly 30 miles. Witnesses said the gunmen fired machine guns and threw grenades at passing cars from the hijacked bus. Some passengers inside the bus were fired on, and at least one body was dumped along the way. An American youth who was driving from Tel Aviv to Haifa with his family reported seeing "a car standing on the other side of the highway and a body lying near by. Moments later," he said, "I saw a bus zigzagging toward our side of the highway. When we came close it stopped. Somebody came down...
...plain mousy little thing, so set upon by her peers that one derived vengeful satisfaction when she-literally-brought the house of her tormentors down around them. By contrast, The Fury exists from the start in the fictional world of movies and paperbacks - a place where secret agents, car chases and shootouts are routine. In that context, psychokinesis requires no greater dislocation than James Bond's latest bit of fanciful hardware...
...Verrazanno or Sun Yatsen? Well, Morgan explains, he threw away his first name, Sanche-a contraction of St. Charles -and scrambled the letters of De Gramont. Among the anagrams that resulted were Dr. Montage, R.D. Megaton and Ted Morgan. Morgan, he felt, was someone you would lend your car to. Dogs and small children would like...