Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three part-timepaid staff members, said the Cambridge-widemovement for immigrant voting rights began in1992, when Komite Kreyol, a group of Haitianimmigrants, asked EFZ to pursue the issue. Thegroup did so for a while, Andler said, but soonhad to direct all its resources toward thecampaign to keep rent control...
...self-record and release a seven-inch or a CD," the liner notes tell us. That may be true, but just because they can is no reason for you to waste your time listening to them. Pick up the Best of New Order or Depeche Mode 101 instead. Or rent Pretty in Pink and sing along with the original tunes. Altogether now: "I touch you once/Touch you twice/Won't let go at any price...
What The Cable Guy had, Very Bad Things lacks: a comedic actor working with disturbing material, scenes of psychological violence and moments when the veil of horror is rent, revealing dark humor underneath. What Very Bad Things has, The Cable Guy did not: an ensemble of characters who--despite including pseudo-stars like Christian Slater--never quite mesh, scenes of physical violence and moments when the superficial horror turns out to conceal nothing besides yet more superficiality. And blood. Blood, limbs and gore, in all of their nauseating variations. Here is where Very Bad Things shows itself to be neither...
...Guymon, Seaboard and local business leaders invested in an apartment complex and trailer parks to house the company's employees. Rent is automatically deducted from the paychecks of Seaboard workers. So, too, is the cost of meals that they eat at the plant. A two-bedroom apartment goes for $420 a month; for three bedrooms, $485. A Seaboard worker earns about $300 a week--before Social Security and income taxes are deducted...
...this money," said Carla Smalts, a rancher who campaigned against corporate hog farming while at the same time waging an ultimately losing battle against cancer. "It comes off the top of their paycheck right to Seaboard," she told TIME in December 1997. "By the time they pay Seaboard their rent and the meals are taken off out at the plant--and most of them eat at least one or two meals out there--they don't have a whole lot left. There's no way these people are going to buy houses." Carla Smalts died in August...