Word: cockroach
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...even hate to kill a cockroach...
...soon as I see one cockroach I call the janitor and have the fumigator come. I even hate to kill a cockroach--they must have a purpose on this earth...
...theater is a garage near Greenwich Village. The playing floor is wall-to-wall carpeting, across which an occasional cockroach wends its nimble way. Wandering around the room or lying on the floor, the cast chants with deliberate monotony: "May I take you to your seat, sir? May I take you to your seat, sir?" But no one ever does...
...Cockroach Inspections. The Japanese are not the first to look upon Makati as a welcome escape from Manila. Once largely swampland, Makati has been developed since World War I by its most recent owners, the immensely successful (insurance, banking, cattle ranching and oil refining) Ayala family. Now one of the Philippines' most desirable residential and commercial areas, Makati lacks Manila's traffic jams, boasts lower taxes, cheaper office rentals and better telephone service. Over the past five years, the Ayalas have attracted such leading firms as the beer-making San Miguel Corp., Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Eastman Kodak...
Villegas, who happens to have a home in Makati himself, says he is happy to see the Japanese firms move out of Manila, adds that "if they don't go, I'll force them out by running cockroach inspections for health hazards or something." Responds Makati's mayor, Maximo Estrella, 62: "I don't care what Villegas thinks. They are welcome here as long as no national law is passed banning them." Given the protectionist feelings of many Filipinos, enactment of such a law is an ever-present possibility. In the meantime,' however, Manila...