Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tactical blunders. "Maynard's forte is clearly not bureaucratic management," admits David Franklin, a lawyer who advises him. Last year Jackson pledged not to increase property taxes. More recently he decided that if he could not raise more revenue, "there won't be enough money to fill the potholes in the streets." With no advance warning, he came out in favor of a stiff 15% increase in the property tax. When the city council cut his request by half, he exploded in anger, calling the vote a "victory for the rich against the poor." Complained a white businessman...
...accommodations for television in their performances. The Nashville Nick had come to find was part of the vast network of motel people. He had come to apply for work in one of the newly-opening prestige chains, fixed with glowing references from his employers in Florida. This boy can fill your house, they said. Nick was going to get a job to be near Penny. We checked into an eight-dollar-a-night shell at the intersection of the main highways which went to Louisville, Knoxville, and south to Chatanooga...
Bettering the terms of trade will not solve the problems of the poor. Though terms of trade have been worsening for the Third World (six years ago an American jeep cost 14 bags of coffee in South America, today 39), an improvement would serve primarily to fill the coffers of government treasuries and the bank accounts of the domestic exploiters of the poor...
...gesture to keep state employees from acting more than they have to, he has even stopped the practice of giving them free attaché cases (savings: $153,355 a year). Says Brown: "Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases...
Despite its bloody, passion-inciting origins, the six-week trial had been surprisingly subdued. Few spectators were on hand; until the end, the press was all but absent. Only last week did Room 303 of the Erie County courthouse in downtown Buffalo begin to fill. Representatives of the Six Nations Indian "family" occupied one row in the spectators gallery. Sketch artists and television reporters craned for a better view. Defense Attorneys Ramsey Clark and William Kunstler and their young convict clients sat at an L-shaped table scarcely five feet from Chief Prosecutor Louis Aidala. Sheriffs' deputies and bailiffs...