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...such circumstances, a way can sometimes be found. The officials got the downtown Plaza Motor Hotel to rent nine of its ninth-floor rooms for the use of 18 prisoners-most of whom were guilty only of misdemeanors. Cost: $22.50 per prisoner per day. The county paid $17 a day per room, plus $5.50 for meals for each of the inmates. While only one of the 254-room hotel's regular customers complained about the situation, an insurance company threatened to cancel the hotel's policy. What to do? The authorities simply released 25 prisoners on personal bonds...
...came down to my house in the south of France to talk about the film," says Bogarde. "After four minutes we knew that we would get along, and I said that I didn't see any need to talk about it further. He then took a pile of motor magazines and went out to sit on the terrace...
...even very basic knowledge of U.S. corporate activities in South Africa hampers any attempts to monitor the relationship between the companies and the Vorster government. Employing the same criteria used in United Nations estimates, the Clark subcommittee decided that the 13 largest American firms in South Africa are General Motors, Mobil Oil, Exxon, Standard Oil of California, Ford Motor Co., ITT, General Electric, Chrysler, Firestone, Goodyear, 3-M, IBM and Caterpillar. Harvard owns stock in nine of these 13 firms, with a total value of over $200 million as of June, 1977, out of a $1.5 billion investment portfolio...
...weeks, she maintained hope that he would be back to normal. Then for about two weeks after that, she hoped he would live. And then, by the first week in May, he was very close to brain death. There was only enough of him left to perform very simple motor functions. At that point all of us realized that it would actually be much better for him if he were to die. We all came to expect it, because he was down to about ninety pounds...
Another pesticide that kills humans as well as insects is Kepone, produced by the Life Science Products plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The plant began production of the highly toxic chemical in March, 1974. Within weeks, employees began to experience symptoms of tremors and ataxia (loss of control of some motor functions). Federal health inspectors found Kepone dust thick in the air of the plant, blanketing the floor, and covering tables where the workers ate their meals...