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...York City and Washington D.C. already employ collection agencies to track down motorists in arrears, and Teso said Cambridge is currently negotiation with firms for the same service...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: 'Tow and Hold' Order Nets $100,000 | 5/5/1981 | See Source »

...Everything We Had employ the techniques of oral history to find the answer. Mark Baker and Al Santoli have skillfully edited and orchestrated their interviews. Nam stretches the form. A crisp, uniform tone suggests that many of the anecdotes may be composites from various sources. None of those interviewed is identified, though a glossary reacquaints us with the language of the war: busting caps for firing a weapon, cherry for inexperience, hooch for shelter, No. 10 for the worst, klick for kilometer, slick for helicopter, Spooky for gunship. Santoli's approach is more traditionally documentary, though both books reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tape-Recorder War | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Says he: "Businessmen can participate more in special training programs for the hard-to-employ. That is a way to increase productivity where it counts the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Voices for a New Era | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...Poletown's plight is, of course, not so simply put. When the GM plant is completed in 1983, it will employ 6,000 workers in a city where unemployment is at 18%. It will also contribute an initial $8.1 million a year in tax revenues to Detroit and the enclosed city of Hamtramck, where only 15 months ago the huge Chrysler assembly plant known as Dodge Main was closed. The GM factory will also offer new hope to a decaying city that has hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of jobs over the past decade and currently faces a record budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Days of Poletown | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...intention of the Nazis to make a sacrifice of this kind, and the position of the Jews was not that of a ritual victim." Still, the term has entered the world's vocabulary (der Holocaust has been naturalized in German), and survivors themselves employ it. The Holocaust Library, distributed by Schocken Books, for instance, is a nonprofit publishing enterprise created and managed by refugees. Most of the titles belong to the literature of testimony-The Holocaust Kingdom by Alexander Donat (361 pages; $8.95, paperback) typically records the last days of the Warsaw ghetto and the will of a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writing About the Unspeakable | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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