Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rademaekers had a typical Southern California tale of woe. Assigned to TIME'S Los Angeles bureau last year, he immediately started house hunting. The experience, he says, was "much like wading gently into an acid bath-a surprising renewal of shock and agony at every turn." After a six-month search, he settled for a two-bedroom "cottage" in West Hollywood. The price: $120,000. No sooner had he moved in and started feeding the gaping koi in his fish basin than he faced the prospect of having his $3,700 property tax raised to well over...
Sarah Hyman, 43, wife of a high school teacher, agrees. The house the Hymans bought six years ago for $72,000 is now assessed at $220,000, and the tax, which was up to $4,000 last year, was slated to more than double?to $8,300. "We see waste in the school system every day," she contends. "At 15 or more high schools, there's a dean for every grade, plus a head dean for the deans. At one school they had enough money to buy six electric typewriters, so they did?even though there was only one typist...
Where will Monrovia cut? First, notices will go out this week to 19 of the city's 185 employees. Ovrom will lose his top assistant. The library staff, currently six people, will be chopped by four. The 49-member police department will be left untouched, as will the 29 full-time firemen. But city council members will lose their $210-a-month stipends...
...when the red and green lights flashed the vote on two big electronic scoreboards in the chamber, ERA backers were shocked. The tally was 101 to 64 in favor, six short of the three-fifths majority needed for passage...
...begin when he strides to the on-deck circle. Rice has sparked Boston to its best start since 1946, when Ted Williams and Dom DiMaggio returned from World War II to win the first Red Sox pennant in almost three decades. Says one Sox fan: "They can be down six runs in the ninth inning, but if Rice still has a chance to bat, nobody leaves...