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...shows often interview people who have packed their families and belongings into their cars and hit the road to find work. The Village Voice compiled horror stories of poor, homeless people who testified before a Congressional panel just before Christmas. The tales included people sleeping in Salvation Army clothing deposit boxes and pretending they had sick relatives in order to enjoy the warmth of hospital waiting rooms. The vignettes were introduced as "the most enduring monument to Reagan's President--the creation of a subculture of misery...
...short-term investments in money-market instruments, whereas consumers were earning only 5% in passbook savings accounts. The hitch was that most people did not have the $100,000 or so that it took to buy higher-yielding investments, such as commercial paper and certificates of deposit. Brown and Bent's solution: a mutual fund that would allow lots of people to pool their money and get into the higher-yielding market. They worked out details while facing each other across their back-to-back desks...
...vantage point, they disconnected four separate alarm systems. Then, just as in the 1956 movie Rififi, they drilled a hole in the floor to the bank's data-processing center. Dropping through, they approached their principal objective: the two doors leading to the bank's 186 safe deposit boxes in the basement of the building. The first iron-barred door was easy to breach; the second, a bulky steel safe door with multiple locks, had to be burned through. Police discovered tangerine peels on the floor by the gates, left there by the burglars, who snacked as they...
...into a Central Square service station, he was informed that use of the air pump cost 50 cents. Upon checking his pockets, he discovered that he had no money, not indeed any change, though he did have a money order for $20 which he was on his way to deposit. The attendant would not allow him to till his tire without paying. My husband offered him the money order, having explained his situation and purpose, shown his identification. etc, No go He then offered to leave the money order to leave his identification, to leave his watch with the attendant...
...billion reserve of U.S. dollars and even pledged its entire 2.5 million-oz. gold cache to secure credit. Then the government-controlled Banco do Brasil, which finances the nation's international trade, began drawing down cash, estimated at nearly $2 billion, that it ordinarily keeps on deposit with major international banks. When that was exhausted, the Brazilian bank was forced to turn to overnight borrowings to stay in business...