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...annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...
...privatizers are politicians. Since public-housing tenants assumed control of the notorious Abbottsford Homes in Philadelphia in 1991, rent collections have jumped from 70% to 90%, while calls to the police are down 30%. In Florida residents of the mixed-income Riverside Park neighborhood near Fort Lauderdale form volunteer crews to repave sidewalks, create parks and plant trees rescued from the path of highway construction. Says volunteer coordinator Tom Andrew: ``We're not waiting for the government to help...
...annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...
...blood--have time to dispose of all the clothes, dispose of the weapons or whatever, get home, shower, pack and go to the airport by 11 o'clock?'' he asks. Cochran insists that ``In terms of the facts, I've had tougher cases.'' In 1990 he defended former Diff'rent Strokes star Todd Bridges, who was arrested for firing eight bullets into a man in a crack house--a man who survived to identify Bridges. Cochran won an acquittal. It was perhaps the most dramatic illustration so far of his extraordinary talent for making jurors see things his way. ``Apart...
...chief Richard Woodbury. United, American and Frontier announced the fee increases over the weekend, to cover extraordinarily high operating costs at the new airport. United Airlines runs 70 percent of the flights to and from Denver. It said that it upped the fee to meet the $195 million in rent and landing fees it will have to pay at the new airport, which is expected to open in about a month. Those costs are more than five times what United pays at Stapleton International Airport...