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Studio apartments at Soldiers' Field Park, which were offered for $550 to $655 per month last year, are now $591 to $704 per month, an increase of 7 percent. One-bedroom apartments on Shaler Lane has risen by 13 percent, as have tow- and three-bedroom apartments on Walker...
...volume. When a highway becomes clogged, controllers can adjust the timing of stoplights on the on-ramps to reduce the flow of vehicles. In Virginia traffic supervisors use remote TV cameras installed along stretches of I-66 and I-395 to spot breakdowns, to which they immediately dispatch tow trucks that dispense free gasoline if a motorist needs it. Chicago's highway authority operates a huge mobile crane, dubbed Mad Max, that can lift up to 60 tons, and has moved obstacles ranging from semitrailers to a 500-lb. runaway...
Dukakis went to the N.A.A.C.P. convention, Bentsen in tow, the day after Jackson's defiant speech. Dukakis' uninspiring talk, praising his own record on minority hiring in Massachusetts and barely acknowledging Jackson, did not go down well. "I would not say to Governor Dukakis' people," noted N.A.A.C.P. Leader Benjamin Hooks, "to sit there and think the black vote is in your party...
Once they have safely arrived, families are invited (expected) to pay for the lobster clambake, a $5/person picnic luncheon if more than two guests have made the journey and another $5.25/person for a luncheon during the degree presentation, "The Big Moment," if more than two guests are in tow. In addition, there is the $7 charge for graduation announcements, the $17 cost of an individual graduation picture in addition to a senior class picture, and the expense of caps and gowns...
...also has multiple amusing moments, usually when Tad Allagash is in tow. In one particularly funny scene, the pair release a vicious ferret in the office of Jamie's former boss while the fiction editor who has rejected his stories falls flat-on-his-face drunk before an armor ornament. And all of Jamie's forays into the Manhattan night are funny in their pathetic way, and this is precisely the sort of humor that...