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...Worldwide sales of pins over the past five years have grown by up to 30% annually. Also booming are pinball rentals (at up to $135 a day) to party throwers, organizers of company picnics, and families who want to try a fast sample of the action. Used, reconditioned machines fetch up to $1,200 each, depending on the game and vintage. As proof that the pins are now iquitous and farious. Sears, Roebuck is marketing a home model called Fireball for $645. Montgomery Ward will also sell an electronic game, for $650, by Christmas...
...Mart. And profit they do. All the used cars fetch higher prices than the sticker cost of a new car. Buyers in tailored overcoats roam among the aging Fiats, Opels, Czech Skodas and Polish Warszawas, checking out the odometers and the prices, which are listed on hand-lettered signs stuck behind the windshield. On a recent Sunday, for example, one man was trying to sell his 1977 Lada (a Soviet-built Fiat), with 6,000 kilometers on the clock, for $11,000; new-when available-the car sells for $5,570. "It's crazy," said one visitor...
PROTECTION IS NOT just the name of the game in prison. It is the game, period. Who will kill for you, who won't squeal to the guards on you, who will connect you to the "lines" that fetch in cash and drugs from the outside. Nothing else much matters. All the other undercurrents of prison life feed into this network of domination--the meals, the exchanges with guards, the vocational training programs. Every activity provides a chance to jockey for influence. Every bit of slang becomes a code-word. Every move somehow reflects on the prison hierarchy...
...been sent to the Oval Office to fetch her father for dinner. Son Jeff, the unofficial family photographer, is there, and he takes some pictures. The President stops at his study to make a couple of phone calls, and leaves...
Nurses have been treated like ignorant, irresponsible, second-class "Step 'n' Fetch Its" by doctors and the public long enough. I'd like to see how others would feel after being in charge of an intensive-care unit for eight hours and being totally responsible for those critically ill patients' lives, with no doctors around 90% of the time...