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Besides cable TV, the police and political infighting, the lieu-of-taxes payments and expansion of the city's two large universities, the rising property tax rate and the distribution of the city's ever scarcer poverty funds among the lower class ethnic neighborhoods should provide fodder for the campaign. Landlords may unite behind one or more candidates in an effort to overthrow the city's controversial rent control law. Some candidates may espouse or oppose the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's plan to convert Kendall Square into a commercial district in order to woo business or working class interests respectively...
Price and his newest customer have plenty of company. With more than 96 million cars on American roads, with queues and prices growing at conventional service stations, with competent and honest mechanics scarcer than ever, the fix-it-yourself garage is a popular new feature in several cities. Saving money is the prime attraction. Stalls rent for $2 to $3.50 an hour, a full line of tools and equipment is available free or at nominal charge, and parts are sold at a discount...
...excessive criminal penalties, rather than through more logical and probably more effective medical and social approaches. The addict suffers an extraordinary compulsion to get hold of his drug, and the more zealously and effectively obstacles are placed in the path of his obtaining the substance he desperately seeks, the scarcer the drug becomes...
...Most addicts ultimately are forced to turn to prostitution or crime (almost invariably against property, and only accidentally against person) to raise the money required for purchasing the drugs which will protect them from suffering the discomfort of a withdrawal syndrome. Thus the more completely enforced the prohibition, the scarcer the drug, and--in the case of a drug of addiction--the more crime will be associated with this drug, even though the capacity to induce antisocial behavior is not a pharmacological property of the drug...
...scarcities of natural gas, the region's most commonly used fuel, forced suppliers to stop servicing customers who have "interruptible" contracts. Generally, these are factories and other businesses which are capable of converting to oil or propane. Because of the dearth of refineries in the Midwest, oil is scarcer in Iowa than in other parts of the country, and what reserves are available are being drained quickly...