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...cost the agency $7.53 on average to transport a Night Owl customer, compared with only $1.37 for a daytime bus rider, and no more than $1.40 for a subway patron (the actual price for a daytime bus ride is 90 cents and $1.25 for a subway fare...
...workshop commissioned several at $2 an hour to candy-stripe a dilapidated transit-authority bus. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. hired yet another group to decorate the plywood fence surrounding its new Philadelphia office. One graffitist was even paid to paint a mural on the wall of Art Patron Ben Bernstein's town house...
...society. But, as might be expected from the diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.), steel-hard Deng, 81, it was a joke with a sharp point. If in his more solemn moments he still attempts to justify what he often calls his "second revolution" in the name of that patron saint of Communist revolution, Karl Marx, Deng is well aware that the system he is evolving in China either ignores or defies many of the precepts most cherished by traditional Marxists (especially those running the Soviet Union). In the Chinese spirit of balance between yin and yang, Deng's second revolution...
...might lead to a negotiated Middle East peace settlement. To some antiterrorist experts, Abu Nidal and his group are less an independent terror organization than the murderous arm of various radical Arab states, first Iraq, then Syria and now Libya. Others say that Syria remains the organization's chief patron, while still others insist that Abu Nidal is completely autonomous...
MICROPHONE STAND -- Got into trouble (again) for tossing one while performing at a Greenwich Village nightclub, hitting a patron in the head; pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct...