Word: hempstead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paid off in monthly installments. The workmen who showed up did additional damage, then demanded cash bribes--$400 in one case--to fix it. Meanwhile, the Singletons' signatures had mysteriously multiplied on mortgage contracts, and the $19,000 became $53,000. The finance company then sold the mortgage to Hempstead Bank. It is now held by Fleet Bank, which contends it has no responsibility for any fraud that was committed before it purchased the contract. The house looks as if it took a direct hit from a bomb, Tony has disappeared, and his company is out of business. Warren Singleton...
When it was announced that Disney planned a singing, dancing Hunchback of Notre Dame [CINEMA, June 24], it seemed like an absurd idea. Having seen the movie, I can only assume the next project will be something along the lines of Anne Frank, the Musical. PHILIP J. SCHACCA West Hempstead, New York
...cash or sign credit-card receipts. An infrared or microwave ``interrogator'' could register each consumer as soon as he or she enters a store and be ready with account information when the time comes to pay. Supermarket futurist Gary Lind, a partner at Arnold Ward Studios/Lind Design in Hempstead, New York, envisions ``intelligent carts'' that will use optical lasers to scan bar codes automatically as items are moved in or out of a shopping cart, thus enabling customers to keep a running tab. These carts might even be programmed to organize the customer's shopping expedition through the store...
Brandon Tartikoff watches from a cramped seat against the window. Wearing ! Reeboks, an open sport shirt and a Boris-and-Natasha wristwatch, he is an easygoing but focused presence. After a few rehearsals of the scene, he huddles quietly with director Hannah Hempstead. For the next run-through, the husband picks up the pastry tray without a smile and drops it abruptly in front of his wife...
...claim to be free of graffiti, gangs and drugs, urban squalor is spreading into the less fortunate towns. Wander for only a few minutes from the leafy avenues of Garden City, a New York City suburb, and you find yourself in the run-down, drug-infested apartment blocks of Hempstead. Reported robberies grew by 17% on Long Island last year. They fell by 1.6% in New York City in the same period...