Word: rent
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Greg A. Johnson '72, executive director of Phillips Brooks House (PBH), said he would like to see the national service program include PBH and similar college groups that offer public service works, something not specifically outlined in the cur-rent bill...
That dream has vanished in a nightmare of relentless inflation and widespread shortages. Dapo, a 33-year-old journalist, lost his job several months ago and cannot find a new one. The fees at his four-year-old son's religious school have risen from $23 to $114. The rent on the family's modest flat in Lagos has doubled to $36.50 a month. A bag of cassava flour that sold for $13.60 when the couple married in 1988 now goes for $50 or more. "Five years ago, I thought that by now we would have a fine home...
...craft as a teenager from John Palamarchuk, a 68-year-old former body-shop owner known to law enforcement as "One-Eyed." (His right eye socket, filled with a plastic orb, is barely open.) Wills, who did not own a driver's license, sometimes enlisted his mentor to rent the trucks that hauled his booty. Palamarchuk, who has never served time despite nine arrests, was happy to oblige. Even today, after his star student's fall, Palamarchuk makes no excuses about the milieu he inhabited. "What are you driving?" he asks, single-eyeballing a reporter's rented Chevy Corsica...
...friend, when eight cops, mind you, accompanied by a drug-sniffing dog, suddenly leaped out of the bushes and yelled, "L.A.P.D.! Which one of you is Heidi Fleiss?" As if they had to ask! Worse, Heidi was certain she was brought down by any number of envious, low-rent madams who run tacky $200 and $300 doxies -- "like they send their maid out on a job or something...
...there is no single piece of ammunition sufficient to land a mortal blow. The Real Anita Hill is, however, a salvo in an ongoing cultural war. It lends a new aspect to the case, compelling the reader to take another look at the proceedings which, almost two years ago, rent American society along class, racial and gender lines...