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...Flint, Michigan...
...running from the scene of a house burglary. When the boy did not respond to the command "Freeze," Collins hit him in the back of the head with a shotgun blast. Within a week of the killing, hundreds of Blacks hit policemen with stones and attacked squad cars. The Flint police cleared Collins of any wrongdoing...
...recession, because we had this recession coming on since 1979. You have only to look at the statistics of 1980 to know that was a recession. In fact, I at one time called it a depression. Everyone wanted to scold me for it, but when I was in Flint, Mich., with unemployment at 20%, I figured that was a depression...
...were good prospects for this revamped system. Says William Howard, Piedmont's president: "We looked for those routes that were underserved, where there was a need for flights." New territory opened up as the big trunk airlines cut small-volume flights to such Midwestern cities as Grand Rapids, Flint, Toledo and Fort Wayne. Last July Piedmont inaugurated its second hub at Dayton. Says Howard: "Those service-devastated Midwestern cities form the heart of our new service...
...core of the Social Security crisis is not just a temporary accounting problem, or the unwillingness of flint-hearted conservatives in Congress to pay for it, but the long-term demographic impossibility of maintaining Social Security as it is currently conceived. Medical advances have extended the average life span so that more people are retiring than was ever expected. Back when FDR first conceived so Social Security, only one American in 20 was over 65. Now the figure is one in 10, and in 50 years will be one in five...