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...shelf above the mirror. Then he would hang up his straw hat and suit coat and raise his window shades. After that he would put on his barber coat, and, finally, he would step outside his shop with the key for winding up his spring-driven barber pole motor. When the twisted red, white and blue stripes began spiraling their way to infinity (a kid could watch those stripes coming down from the top of the pole and disappearing into the bottom of the pole for a good stretch of time without figuring out where they went), you knew...
...York City. They sloshed to work in the morning through ankle-deep puddles and returned home that evening in a tropical downpour. Cars and school buses clogged the streets. At one point, police in Manhattan narrowly averted a "grid lock," the ultimate traffic jam, in which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike, and the élan that New Yorkers had shown in the first week of the walkout had washed away...
...abroad" totalling more than $1 billion. In addition, less obviously illegal--but often more harmful--acts result from unclear and unenforced regulation. Companies usually explain "chemical crime," the deliberate proliferation of toxic wastes and other chemicals into the environment, by pleading ignorance of the consequence of their actions. Ford Motor Company knew that Pintos often exploded on rear-end impact; Firestone failed to disclose evidence that its Radial 500 tires tended to belt-edge separation at high speeds; for 40 years manufacturers suppressed information suggesting that asbestos could cause cancer. Harsher sanctions are necessary to eliminate corporate abuses...
Without a hint of despair or ill health he had taken a room at the Winken Blinken Motor Hotel one starry evening in April and slit both wrists with a razor blade. Morgan has spent a large part of his life trying to find out why. The possibility had begun to settle upon him, as imperceptibly as dust, that perhaps there hadn't been a reason at all. Maybe a man's interest in life could just thin up to a trickle and dry up; was that...
...lots are located near the Harvard Motor House. Developer Richard Friedman won preliminary city planning board approval of the plan last year but must still gain state clearance for the project...