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Costs range from $50 for the cheapest models, which are like running shoes with wheels, to $400 for custom skates with high tops for maximum ankle support. Dayton-based Snyder Roller Skate Co., which outfitted the U.S. athletes at the Pan-Am Games, makes precision-built skates for professional rollers. Sales of its basic but still pricey ($109 to $175) models have risen by 30% in the past year. The roller boom has spawned a flock of sidewalk entrepreneurs who rent skates from the backs of vans. But the people who are really cleaning up, besides the equipment suppliers...
...specialists in urban fields. They dispense information about arcane money management methods, political techniques, trends to expect in the future and, above all, how to get by in a period of stagnant federal and state aid. One proposed device: juggle whatever cash is on hand adroitly enough to earn maximum interest on it. The mayors respond like pre-med students before final exams, asking the same basic questions and getting writer's cramp taking notes. When Crozier misplaces his pad he scribbles away on a series of napkins which he then stuffs in his pocket...
Where governments have legislated maximum speeds, enforcement has frequently proved difficult. On expressways in Portugal (75 m.p.h.) and The Netherlands (62 m.p.h.) the new limits have been consistently flouted. Only Norway has been successful in keeping its motorists on a low 56-m.p.h. mark, sometimes by suspending violators' licenses on the spot...
...dealt with, and that future convictions of Nazi killers would become increasingly difficult because of faulty memories, witnesses' deaths, and lack of evidence. Of the 85,802 people investigated in connection with war crimes since 1945, only 6,440 have been convicted, and only 166 received the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Opponents of the present law were afraid that some of the several thousand Nazi criminals in hiding abroad might escape justice. There has been international pressure on the Bundestag, particularly from Jews around the world, to abolish the statute of limitation, but television played its part...
...patch up old equipment that should have been junked years ago. Commuter trains on Boston's Woburn-Winchester line are so decrepit that they are not allowed to travel faster than 15 m.p.h. Cleveland is refurbishing 50-year-old trolleys on the Shaker Heights line. Though the maximum efficient life for a bus is twelve years, Los Angeles is repairing some dating back to the early '50s. Kansas City has reactivated 60 rattletrap buses that it previously had retired. In desperation, Houston is leasing buses from Continental Trailways, and Miami is pressing school buses into service...