Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marr and Bird, now only hours behind the trail of the Granbergs, staked out one of the family's favorite hiding spots, the Temple Hills Motel in New Windsor, N.Y. The investigators now had enough evidence to bring in state police and federal inspectors for an arrest, and when Granberg walked unsuspectingly out of his motel room, they pounced. Granberg was indicted the following week by a federal grand jury on four counts of fraud and is now in jail in Manhattan, awaiting trial. Judy Granberg, Rignola and Farriel were also arrested on charges of fraud. Says Marr...
...addition to protection, the new U.S. presence in Honduras means something that is even more appreciated by local residents: money. In the towns where U.S.-built airstrips are emerging, for example, there has been a sudden efflorescence of Honduran shopkeepers, motel owners, restaurateurs and others eager for U.S. dollars. Gasoline sales in the Pacific port of San Lorenzo (pop. 20,000), near one U.S. encampment, are up by 25%. Says a Honduran businessman: "If there is money to be made here, we should be the ones to gain...
Details of most cases, in the words of one Justice official, are as "dull as dishwater," and just as dirty. Typically, a group of contractors interested in winning state or federal jobs meets at a motel shortly before a scheduled bid letting and agrees in advance which of their firms will submit the low bid on each of several projects. The others promise to turn in higher figures in return for like arrangements on "their" jobs. Sometimes payoffs beyond these so-called complimentary bids are involved, as was the case with two former officials of Ashland-Warren, Inc., an Atlanta...
...money. I just didn't want to lose what I had. I'm not a rich man." For Theo Fullmer, 70, and his wife Bettie, 63, of Rexburg, Idaho, the Whoops default was their second disaster. In 1976 the Teton River Dam collapse in Idaho destroyed a motel they had owned for nearly 13 years. After the U.S. Government paid them about $100,000 for their loss, they invested $80,000 of it in Nos. 4 and 5 bonds. Says Bettie, who now works as a cook at the local high school: "You wouldn't believe...
...that People is not hooked up to the national computer reservation clearance, and its phone service is primitive. For each departure there are likely to be twice as many would-be passengers as seats. Those who lose out have the choice of taking a taxi to a nearby motel, which is not in the spirit of cut-rate fares, or sleeping on the marble floor of Newark airport's dreary North Terminal...