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...Court ruled that the 1988 seizure of a car used by a man for an assignation with a prostitute was legal, even though the confiscated car belonged to the man's wife. Tina Bennis, the owner of the car, argued that the government's taking of her 1977 Pontiac violated her constitutional rights to due process of law and compensation for seizure. In an impassioned dissent from the Court's decision, Justice John Paul Stevens called the ruling "blatantly unfair," saying the decision would allow the states to "confiscate vast amounts of property." TIME's Adam Cohen reports: "The ruling...
...fellows I played ball with." And of course sooner or later some candidate--even one as sheltered as the Beltway insider Buchanan--had to trip over the bodies of the downsized and notice that the effervescent economy of Wall Street is not the same as the economy of, say, Pontiac, Michigan...
...lower real wages. The only way to reverse this trend is to create more jobs by reducing the standard work week. Shrinking the work week from 40 hours or more to 30 hours would help solve the employment problem caused by the information revolution. JAMES W. RENDER Pontiac, Michigan
...took home about $10,000 as a cabdriver. This year she expects to do better. But even with Terri working six-day weeks and her husband Philip driving a cab all seven days, they still can't scrape together a down payment on a house. Terri's 1985 Pontiac needs radiator and clutch work; Philip is still paying $160 a month on a 14-year-old Mazda pickup. "I'm making less money than ever in my whole life, and I'm working more," Terri says. "I have no life. The only thing that holds me together is my children...
...want for money. In the days leading to the Oklahoma bombing, he paid cash for his motel room in Junction City, Kansas; he paid cash for the Ryder truck that allegedly carried some 5,000 lbs. of explosives to Oklahoma; and he forked over $250 (and his old Pontiac) for the Mercury he was driving when he was arrested. In Kingman, Arizona, the owner of the trailer park where the suspect lived in 1993 says he saw McVeigh flashing around "a big wad of money." Investigators have told Time that McVeigh possesses some $10,000 in cash and bank accounts...