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...hike wouldn?t be nearly enough to cover the budget shortfall. ?The problems were more severe than I thought they would be,? he says. So Bredesen, who?s refusing a salary, took a meat cleaver to the budget, slashing $400 million and 847 state jobs. State officials may even repossess library books - including Dr. Seuss - from rural schools that haven?t paid their bills. ?Moses didn?t bring an 11th Commandment down saying state revenues always have to go up,? says Bredesen. ?You have to be able to manage when times are good and times are bad, and sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of Our Governor's Discontent | 9/6/2003 | See Source »

Alson’s travails with writing compelled him toward unconventional jobs. He drove an ambulance at one point and, at another, helped to repossess cars in somewhat unsafe neighborhoods in New York...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Struggling Author Writes Memoir Of Illegal Gambling | 6/4/2002 | See Source »

...announced in mid-1996 it was going to repossess the space the daycare center had used on the HLS campus. The eviction left the center's 43 young charges and their parents seeking a new site...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Child's Garden | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...hoping for a quick profit--precisely the point I tried to illustrate with mcdonalds.com Predictably, the lawyers arrived and created a new field: Internet law. One enterprising company, NetNames International, even specializes in "domain-name recovery" and claims to have a stable of 60 attorneys worldwide standing by to repossess ill-gotten names. Not wanting quittner.com to fall into the wrong hands, I decided to procure it myself last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's In A Name? | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...like Miranda warnings. An 1873 Supreme Court decision held that bounty hunters may pursue a defendant "into another State; may arrest him on the Sabbath; and, if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose." Says Arizona lawyer Gary Klahr: "In Phoenix, it's harder now to repossess a car--you're supposed to alert the police first--than it is to repossess a human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDERS AT DAWN | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

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