Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Barry Locke said last night the settlement money will be used "for lease or purchase of rolling stock on the Green Line...
...Lake Grove trustees of trying to break up the school, the strong-willed DeSisto announced plans to found his own school; and most of the faculty and student body quit to go with him. Parents of the kids were loyal too. DeSisto bought the Stockbridge property with tuition money they paid in advance...
...officials believe they could halt the loss of $8,000 worth of unreturned and stolen books each year by installing a $20,000 electronic detection system. The system would thus earn back its cost in fewer than three years, but the librarians have not been able to wangle the money from the city...
...current crisis is not caused by reader neglect, but is simply a matter of money. Since 1969, the cost of books has soared by 106%. Libraries are funded chiefly by local governments and must compete for their share of revenue with life-and-death municipal services like police and fire departments. "The property tax is a killer," says Edward Chenevert, library director in Portland, Me. Complains Dale Perkins, 46, library director for California's San Luis Obispo County: "We are just one sixty-fifth of the county budget-right in there with mosquito abatement...
...players year round on weight-training equipment, but otherwise there are few frills and fewer regulations for Moeller's football stars. With no home field, the Fighting Crusaders played in seven different stadiums during their ten-game regular season, occasionally cramming into a single bus to save money. As for curfews, Faust says: "I tell them that if they have a solid reason for staying out past 12:30, then they can stay out. They've never given me a reason." But the coach does have one firm player rule: "They better conduct themselves as Christians. That...