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...Long Island, they left behind neighborhoods eventually inhabited by much poorer people. Falling rent forced landlords to neglect and then abandon buildings. Vandals ripped anything of value from the tenements or just torched them. Arson became a carefully planned and profitable activity as landlords burned their buildings to collect fire insurance, making the area charred and hollow...
...Angeles used six pitchers from its injury riddled staff in trying to halt the Astros, while Joe Niekro went all the way for Houston to collect his 20th win of the season...
Casey also believes that the stocks of small natural-resource companies are good for short-term speculation. He has a dim view of the current craze for buying such collectibles as artworks or beer cans. But he makes two exceptions: custom-made knives and antique Greek, Roman and medieval coins. Casey happens to collect both of these himself. He inveighs against investing in U.S. real estate, arguing that the market has already peaked. He advises people to rent, rather than buy, housing. One of Casey's most urgent suggestions: get your money out of the U.S. and into...
Kraft is not expected to return to the campaign committee, but he will continue to collect his $56,000-a-year salary; he will need it. Jordan's ultimately successful defense cost at least $100,000. Four regional directors will split up Kraft's responsibilities, but they lack his close personal ties to almost everyone in the campaign, from the President to the field staff. Said a staffer: "We will miss Tim's day-to-day leadership. He was our problem solver...
...always full, and the author is perpetually astonished. In Working, Terkel edited the testimonies of laborers and executives, secretaries and politicians who were too unique to prove his thesis about the degradation of the assembly tine and the anonymity of office work. In Hard Times, he set out to collect memoirs of the Great Depression and ended with an elegy for 133 voices and continuo. For his new volume, American Dreams: Lost and Found, Terkel has abandoned any attempt at doctrine. There is only, he admits, "in the manner of a jazz work, an attempt, of theme and improvisation...