Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scavengers sell their booty to scrap dealers. While new red bricks cost about $450 per 1,000 on the retail market, dealers pay the thieves only $50. Since Detroit tears down 2,000 to 3,000 abandoned buildings a year, police are not terribly concerned about the thefts. The most troubling aspect of this new inner-city crime wave is the motive of most of the culprits: to get enough cash for another hit of crack. "Brick stealing is on the upswing, and it's directly tied to the price of the brick," says Charles H. Smith Jr., president...
...health centers will also offer Cambridge residents education about pregnancy, information on nutrition and insurance counseling, said Volkin. The hospital will not turn away any patients because of inability to pay, she said...
...Undergraduate Council may, depending on how they vote, pay $50,000 to bring Suzanne Vega to campus. This is absolutely absurd. The Council should get out of the concert promotion business and quickly...
...complicitous. We are forced to acknowledge that for every $29 fare that Eastern sells to our readership, we are contributing $29 to Frank Lorenzo's attempts to bust Eastern's machinist union--which for two grueling months has been on strike, on the picket lines, and off the pay roll...
Lorenzo broke the Continental Airlines unions during a 1983 strike. Continental machinists now make a maxiumum of $16 per hour, $2.50 per hour less than machinists in the rest of the industry. Some carriers pay their top machinists more than $19 per hour. Lorenzo wants to run a non-union airline and reap windfall profits for himself and Texas Air. The man is a greedy slime...