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Convention members say the construction at the newly reorganized high school was necessary to avoid loss of accredidation for continuing programs in substandard facilities. Also, they point out that Massachusetts will now reimburse Cambridge for some of the costs of construction and operation of the facilities. The Convention blames the Independents for just as many costly programs, so the argument turns to whose programs are the most necessary...
...aggravated by poor quality government food supplies (which are guaranteed by treaty), allocated on the reservation. The Genocide Report notes, "More than 75 per cent of all Indians in the United States suffer from malnutrition and related diseases." The act of trying to eliminate an entire population by substandard food, housing and living conditions aggravated by poor health care is a deplorable program of action. Two nations that constantly boast of human rights policies are killing neighbors in their own backyards...
...regularly at unreported second and even third jobs. Entire families work at home assembling ball-point pens, making shoes, stamping out auto parts or upholstering furniture. Hospital nurses work after hours in clinics; cops and firemen do lucrative plumbing or electrical work in their spare time. Many wages are substandard: as low as $60 a month. But there are no tax or social security deductions. Workers find the jobs rewarding. With everyone pitching in, family income can be substantial...
...slow. No curbside checkin. Baggage carts hard to find. No moving sidewalks. TV screens, showing departure gates, not always functioning. Longest walk: 1,300 ft. Baggage checkout: 20 min. Immigration and customs: airport's only delight. Hotels/Motels: pleasant, modern facilities near beach at Ostia, five miles away. Amenities: substandard. Coffee bars (espresso 30?, Coke 57?). Best restaurant: International Airport Restaurant. Ten bars, open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; one in international transit section open 24 hr. Two tax-free shops selling only liquor and cigarettes. (Best distraction for passenger with two hours to spare: Roman ruins with fine mosaics...
...goes Newfield's script. He keeps compounding the felons until, surrounded by nothing but villainy, the reader grows weary and even skeptical. Substandard hyperbole ("We realized that behind almost every horror stood a banker") and doctrinaire populism ("They are making a desert and calling it a balanced budget") further reduce the authors' credibility. Invective obscures insight. John Lindsay was not merely an inadequate mayor but "a volunteer cuckold of the permanent government." The clubhouse crowd is condemned as "back-room dreck," though in fact it produces some good administrators...