Word: ems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Have each league hold a draft of all American citizens. Institute some form of a "reserve clause" to stock the army. Have the World Series champion go on TV and shake a file cabinet listing the names of all those drafted at the Soviets. That would show 'em...
Murton's reforms worked for a short while. "You could argue that I made things worse for the inmates," he says, "lighting a candle to have it blown out. As people said, start a band, then they want dances. Let 'em out of their cells, they want out of prison." But ultimately the reforms upset the politicians and exposed the system." As Murton says, smiling, "It worked. That's why it failed...
...know the man--he'd just been with us a few weeks. He was working on his S.U. carb on the shoulder of the road near our firetrap the other night when a broad in a cage went off the road, smackin' him and his sled, shovin' 'em a hundred feet down the road. It makes you wonder why these things happen...
...authority over a meaningless road. We were not confronting the utilities, the State, capitalism, only some hired cops who didn't really want to be there in the first place. In the end, the police with protestors gleefully following with shouts of "Hup, Hup, Hup" and "OK, march 'em to the plant and leave them there...
...hopes to start work in a computer keypunch training program soon "so maybe I can get a good job and move away from here." Says she: "These apartments are ragged. They need to just tear 'em down. You can come around here at night and see all the rats. We haven't had any mailboxes the whole time I've been living here. We used to have to go to the post office to get the mail. Well, now the post office has been burned...