Word: township
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...insurance shock is forcing communities to curb services and boost taxes. Northfield (Ill.) Township High School District 225 canceled its summer basketball and baseball programs this year for lack of coverage. In Blue Island (pop. 22,000), a Chicago suburb, citizens held a noisy meeting last month to debate a 30% tax increase. Reason: the city's insurance premiums had jumped from $175,000 to $435,000 in one year. In July the Southern California Rapid Transit District came within nine hours of idling its 2,500 buses for lack of insurance. The annual premium rose from...
...mildest episodes of unrest by calling out legions of police. After responding to the worldwide condemnation of apartheid by hinting that genuine reform was on the way, it abruptly reversed itself in Botha's blunt reaffirmation of the present system. It fought a school boycott in the black township of Soweto two weeks ago by arresting more than 700 black youngsters, many of them no more than eight or ten years old. Last week, when Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu's son Trevor, 29, expressed his indignation that a nine-year-old was being brought before a magistrate for participating...
...outside world has tended to notice Hinckley Township, Ohio, only during the annual celebration of Buzzard Day on March 15, when the homely scavengers flap back to town just as swallows home in on Capistrano. But this summer the northeast Ohio community of 5,000 has a more urgent claim on public curiosity: the case of the missing police chief...
Following Smith's win, Mugabe lashed out angrily at the disproportionate parliamentary representation accorded whites. He promised 200,000 supporters gathered in the Harare township of Highfield that "we will not live with that indignity and insult for very much longer." Branding the whites who supported Smith as "racists of the past," Mugabe also warned ominously of a "cleanup operation so that we remain only with the whites who want to work with the government...
...pros and cons of technology. She will enter Harvard University in the fall. The world-affairs winner is Richard Carne, 15, of Mendham, N.J., for his examination of moves toward reconciliation by West Germany and East Germany. Carne is a sophomore at the Delbarton School in Morris Township, N.J., where his article began as a history paper. "I'm extremely pleased -- and very surprised," says Carne. "I didn't think I stood a chance...