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...battles in which the women always lose, and being around the carnage is uncomfortable. In the movable madhouse of life on the road, the unisex nourishments are drugs and booze. Janis Joplin, the first great white woman rocker, rattled the bars of the madhouse, but she died of mind solvent...
...over the past two years, New York City must make additional cuts to meet Mayor Abraham Beame's promise of a balanced budget by June 30, 1978. New York Governor Hugh Carey this week will announce details of a further squeeze in public services to keep the state solvent...
Daley's Chicago worked financially, supporters like to say, especially in comparison to New York. Indeed, the mayor was an adept fiscal manager and the city is solvent. But observers are wrong in attributing that to some magic on Daley's part, some ability to have his cake and eat it too--to satisfy labor and management, black and white, rich and poor, and keep taxes down at the same time...
Beame and his aides defend their figures and pledge alternative trims if necessary. But if the skeptics are correct, the city could face a new default threat next winter and an end to the federal loans that have kept the city solvent since January...
Kathryn Miles, a Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) research fellow, suffered from a respiratory infection for two weeks last summer, after prolonged exposure to the solvent toluol. The solvent "did some real toxic damage," she said...