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While authorities in other cities are watching Seattle with interest, most are content to rely on existing laws rather than introduce new ones. Faced with well over 350,000 homeless wandering the streets in search of food and shelter, cities cannot hope to get rid of beggars. The problem isn't panhandling, says Patrick Murphy, director of the police policy board of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and former New York City police commissioner. "It's an entire social structure. Without proper housing, there is little hope for a solution...
Murdoch, under a June 30 deadline for resolving a dual ownership in Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts, has declared he will keep the Boston Herald and sell WXFT television. In New York, Murdoch has until March 6 to rid himself either of the Post or WYNW television...
...senior manager was leading a group of newly hired salesmen on a shop-floor tour when someone took umbrage at the sight of laborers wearing Santa Claus caps. Though the festive headgear had become something of an annual tradition at the plant, management ordered three offending workers to get rid of their caps. When they refused, they were promptly suspended for three days without...
...more determined than ever to get the American missiles out and to keep them out. The general staff concluded that Brezhnev really blew it by provoking the U.S. into installing the Pershing IIs in the first place and then not having the wit to make a deal to get rid of them...
...Foam has been singled out as the culprit, butit isn't. The average life span of a landfill is10 years. If we got rid of all foam products, wewould only extend the life of a landfill by onemonth. The CFC resulting from foam products isonly one-one thousandth of 1 percent of thehazards to the ozone layer...