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...figure, when applied to $608,200, is rather dangerously near the (informal) project budget, especially if the cost of the mandatory ramp and lift is counted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wheelchair-Ramp Blues | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...didn't do anything immoral. In fact we invested a good deal more money than was required in order to comply with the spirit of the law, not just the narrow technical requirements." Tucker said, explaining that "three nice handicapped apartments, a lift, a ramp, and other accoutrements" were provided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wheelchair-Ramp Blues | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...phone book, no names on company parking spots and no logos on company cars and planes. Tony Purbrick, who heads Pinkerton's executive and personnel protection program, was aghast to find that one client corporation routinely left its well-marked jet on an unguarded ramp and flight plans were widely circulated. "The first thing I had to do," he says, "was to get people to be just a little more secretive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hand of Terrorism | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...current double on the ground floor of a Canaday entry instead of the Weld suite. "They really wanted me here. I could have fought, but it seemed nice being on the ground floor in terms of socializing." Workers widened Mattlin's bedroom and bathroom doors, constructed a small, wooden ramp at the door to his double, and poured fresh asphalt at the entryway door at a cost of about $2500. Robert Mortimer, superintendent of the Yard, says...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The Quest for a Fuller Existence | 5/15/1981 | See Source »

Police in Miami recently caught one man near an expressway ramp cutting up a fallen pole with a blowtorch and loading the pieces onto a pickup truck. An even bolder thief was caught at 4 a.m. by Highway Patrol Corporal Edward Fletcher with an intact pole strapped to the side of a Datsun. "It wouldn't take a great police mind to figure out that one," said Fletcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Poles Apart | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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