Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with ten years to repay and enter into a revolving tuition- credit arrangement that lets them borrow as they go along, or arrange credit for up to $6,000 in vouchers that the student can sign like checks at, say, the college bookstore or even the computer shack. Some 1,800 students are using the Penn plan, but Assistant Director Diane-Louise Wormley says this is only the beginning: "We hope to hit all the undergraduates...
...plot is painfully simple. A Chicago fireman named Jack Moniker (Williams), who is tired of the hustle and bustle of the big city, retires to a secluded island shack on Nicholas. If we were to believe this movie, along with the recently released Running Scared about Chicago cops, it would seem every public servant of the windy city is looking to find some...
...episode, scheduled to air in May, casts Iacocca in a cameo role as Parks Commissioner Lido, a "silver- haired, self-possessed, no-baloney administrative type," says NBC. In a none too subtle reference to Iacocca's Ellis Island scuffle with Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, Lido, asked about a shack in a stakeout scene, replies, "It's just a leftover from some developers who wanted to put up a hotel. We don't go for commercializing public land." Lido is ready to shoot off more than his mouth. "If it's any help," he tells Crockett and Tubbs, "I know...
Negotiations between students and the administration broke down on the morning of February 11. The shack in front of the administration building was removed without incident, but when students tried to stop school grounds workers from hauling away the shanty on the green, they were arrested...
This is no ordinary spirit-stricken shack, if only because of its impressive track record. Before the movie begins, it has already abducted our hero's son, destroyed his marriage, and killed his aunt. Not bad for an inanimate object. Then, before 10 minutes has elapsed, it manages to lure our helpless author back to the spooky edifice in order to finish...