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Money and legislation cannot drive malice and evil from the human heart. Increased funds will not get rid of the Daryl Gateses of the world. And very few criminals fit the heart-rending description of Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family...
...quality at a low price. The Campbell Soup Co. has introduced discount frozen foods, including Swanson budget dinners (average cost: $1.39). In the hope of stemming a decline in business that typically reached 20% in the past year, restaurants are adding such moderately priced classics as fried chicken, meat loaf and bread pudding. Restaurateurs have coined a phrase for it: "casualization." In fast food, price is the object. After Taco Bell won new fans by pricing about half its items at 99 cents or less, Burger King began offering Burger Buddies cheeseburgers at 29 cents for customers who buy fries...
...They didn't give us all we wanted. They gave us about half a loaf, which is better than no loaf at all," Weld said...
Spending its days in the streets, the lost generation alarms many black community leaders as much as it does white government officials. Perhaps half the urban youth eschew political activism, preferring to loaf, play soccer, drink beer and shoot dice. Thousands upon thousands of others are tough political activists. They seem to roam the townships like so many deputy sheriffs, setting down the law of the street and enforcing it with harsh punishment...
...During the day I mostly loaf and work at night when it's cool," he says...