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...effects of its College-supported monopolies. If a group is attempting to provide its employees and managers with “practical business experience,” it should get used to having to compete with other companies in the area of in-dorm ring sales and fridge rental. The College should stop preferential treatment of HSA, and the deans should enforce their regulations equally. Most importantly, students should be free from all sales tables, all unsolicited advertisements unconnected to publication content, and illogical regulations dictating who can sell them a microwave...
...Pudding had replaced a lock on the back door of the truck and subsequently lost the key, and the rental agency would not take the truck back. With the flight to Bermuda leaving soon, Howe desperately needed to get the lock removed...
...feature air-circulation mattress systems to help prevent bedsores. The market for bed surfaces and accessories alone is estimated to be $150 million a year and is growing 15% annually. "As the obesity epidemic grows, so does our revenue," says Lynne Sly, vice president of marketing at Kinetic Concepts. Rental rates are steep--up to $200 a day for a bed--but worth it. Before such products were available and widely covered by Medicare and private insurance, recalls Joe Sacco of Central Medical Supplies in Long Valley, N.J., "we'd see patients sleeping on top of plywood propped...
...being beaten nightly in front of her children?" he asks. For his part, Senator John Kerry, a Democrat running for President, has proposed legislation that would add 1.5 million units of affordable housing to address the fact that America's population has grown 11% in the past decade while rental stock has shrunk. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which lobbies for government housing, for the fourth year in a row there isn't a single jurisdiction in the U.S., with the exception of places in Puerto Rico, where a person working full time for minimum wage...
...growing number of families without housing. David and Gina Christian and their four children have avoided the streets by staying in a 600-sq.-ft. apartment at the Interfaith House in Dallas, which provides three months' housing to 100 needy families each year. David, 34, lost his job fixing rental cars in Austin after Sept. 11 when the tourism industry fell apart. Gina, 36, wasn't making enough as a nursing-home temp to cover the family's expenses. The Christians hocked everything they owned--their TV, the kids' PlayStation, Dad's tools--to follow David's old boss...