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That may not be enough. Too often local governments fail to consult residents about new projects or do not respond to their complaints. In Van Nuys, a Los Angeles suburb, the state department of corrections quietly installed 54 inmates in a work-furlough program housed in a former health club, leaving the building's sign -- Aerobics and Nautilus Unlimited -- intact. In Berkeley, after James Kelly repeatedly complained to city officials about the offensive behavior of homeless squatters next door, he finally got frustrated enough to take action: he allegedly lobbed Molotov cocktails at his obstreperous neighbors. Kelly, 47, a utility...
...supposed to be serving time for murder in Massachusetts in April 1986 when he invaded a home in Oxon Hill, Md., raped a woman and stabbed her companion. Horton had not broken out of prison. He had walked away from it ten months earlier while on a weekend furlough, an experiment that has been a cornerstone of Governor Michael Dukakis' criminal-justice program...
...that his life, or the first 42 years of it covered here, has been uneventful. In early 1919, around the time of Burgess's second birthday, his mother and older sister died of Spanish influenza. His father, on a furlough from the British army, walked into his Manchester lodgings on a horrid scene: "I, apparently, was chuckling in my cot while my mother and sister lay dead on a bed in the same room." At the end of Little Wilson and Big God, on a Christmas holiday in 1959, the author is told that he has an inoperable brain tumor...
...attendants last week as they checked the bulletin board in the Eastern Air Lines office at Miami International Airport. Posted was a list of the names of people losing their jobs. As part of a major cost-cutting program, the financially strapped airline had just announced that it would furlough 1,010 of its 7,200 flight attendants. Said Wilfred Tirado, seeing his name: "I have a $763 monthly mortgage and a two-month-old son. Now what am I going to do?" In other airports, 23,000 additional Eastern workers, including reservations clerks and ticket takers, learned that their...
...this year, Texas Instruments' earnings fell 89%, to $9 million, and the company has laid off about 2,000 of its 85,000 employees since December. Mostek, the chipmaking division of United Technologies, lost more than $40 million in the first quarter. It said last week that it would furlough 1,600 of the 4,800 workers at its Carrollton, Texas, plant. National Semiconductor of Santa Clara, Calif., shut down most of its plants for two weeks in February and is currently imposing a six-month pay freeze and a four-day work week...