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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot that launched a thousand westerns starts with the town's God, fearing merchants up to their sleeve garters in fear and frustration. The black hats are many and merciless, the lawmen feckless and few. The community antes up for its own gunmen, and the action begins. Now, in real life and modern dress, the city of Houston is playing out the old melodrama...
...production and research. This means that some is earmarked for improving the memories of Bull's Gamma line of computers in order to increase their capability and make them more inviting to buyers. With some of the rest, the partners must recruit engineers and technicians. Since January, a thousand skilled employees have left the company, unhappy over layoffs and cutbacks and nervous about rumors that General Electric was pulling...
Pillistics. For the racketeers, says Author Kreig, setting up a bootleg drug shop is a relatively simple matter. Machines to compress, count and package tablets can be bought secondhand from salvage companies that deal in equipment discarded by legitimate manufacturers. Small print shops will run off a few thousand imitation labels, with no questions asked. The counterfeiters hire chemists, some of whom are moonlighting while holding jobs with ethical manufacturers. They bribe technicians to steal punches and dies, and raw materials from the big companies. Much of their manufacturing is done at night in small plants that do an apparently...
...Need Help." Since most expenditures are mandated by law, school boards have little choice but to keep resubmitting the defeated budgets to the voters until they relent and approve them. Similarly, most bond issues, after being stripped of a few thousand dollars of frills, pass the second time around: parents generally see the need for new schools when their children start attending overcrowded classes on a shift schedule. But many educators admit that local communities can no longer be counted upon as the primary source of support for public schools. "We need help," says Cincinnati's Miller. "If citizens...
...thousand years, along with our country...