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Duehay pointed to Harvard's acquisition of the Quality Motor Inn on Mass Ave., which has been earmarked for Law School housing, as a property that could be removed from the tax rolls. Duehay said that he wants compensation for any such properties to be worked into the current in-lieu-of-tax agreement...
Colorado state officials seized Silverado in December 1988 and turned it over to federal regulators, who reopened it as a reborn Mile High Federal S&L and later sold it to First Nationwide Savings Bank, a subsidiary of Ford Motor. Investigators are trying to track the assets of the high-living Walters and Good, who claim they are broke. So far the investigators have found 174 trust funds linked to Good, who apparently still has staunch friends in Colorado. The Denver Economic Development Agency has just awarded a $100,000 development grant to Good Enterprises...
...years, California's motor vehicles department has issued aptly named vanity license plates to 1.1 million drivers who feel the need to show off their initials, spouse's name and favorite baseball teams to fellow travelers. While the state has always cast a cold eye toward entries that use nasty ethnic or sexual terms, more than 300 tags with variations of the words dago and wop slipped through. Responding to complaints from the Sons of Italy organization, California has issued an unprecedented recall of dicey plates that sport such titles as DUMDAGO, 14KWOP, DAGOGOD and TOPWOP. Some drivers were allowed...
...calm of a little town like Sturgis, S. Dak. (pop. 5,300), it is usually easy to notice when even one alien motorcyclist guns into town. But last week 275,000 showed up, along with a camp following of 42 portable tattoo parlors, for the 50th annual Black Hills Motor Classic. Bikers packed motels as far away as Sundance, Wyo., some 40 miles to the west. For seven days, they turned four blocks of Sturgis' Main Street into chopper gridlock, gathering for rock concerts (Allman Brothers, Steppenwolf, BTO), hill-climbing contests, an amateur female topless contest and motorcycle rodeos. Last...
Burden of Proof begins when Stern returns home from one of his many business trips to another city and finds that his wife, Clara, has committed suicide by running the car motor all day with the garage door closed. Stern's initial investigation into her suicide turns up few clues, but he soon discovers that she has been treated for herpes by a doctor who lives next door. This is a fairly clear sign to Stern that Clara's disappointment with him goes back for a long time...