Word: trashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily need to use it is supplied by British Director Winner and West Coast Writer Mayes, who offer a vision of New York City existence based less on firsthand experience than on old Johnny Carson-Dick Cavett monologues about getting home from the studio. Everywhere Bronson turns in a trash-and graffiti-glutted environment, he sees an old man mugged, a car being burglarized-and his gun is quick. Pretty soon he is stalking the gloomiest streets, the dimmest parks, the grimiest subways, inviting attack and expertly dispatching his assailants with his peacemaker...
Perhaps most ominous, civil servants were showing a distinctly uncivil tendency to walk off their jobs. In Baltimore, the walkout by 3,000 trash collectors, jail guards, zookeepers and other city workers ended when the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees reached agreement on a new contract that made a mockery of Mayor William D. Schaefer's vow to hold pay increases to 6%. Garbage men's salaries will leap 20%%, from $3.42 an hour to $4.12, by July 1975, while policemen's will soar 22%, to a maximum...
...union members to allow food to be brought in; but no manure was taken out, and it piled up at the rate of a ton a day. Along with the rank smells assaulting their noses, Baltimoreans faced a cacophony of wailing sirens, as fire engines raced after hundreds of trash fires and nonstriking patrolmen and state troopers chased down looters. In the first two days of the strike at least 200 stores were vandalized or looted...
...Mount Whitney has become about as lonely as Times Square on New Year's Eve. Last summer some 15,000 people made the trek, most camping overnight along the way. Verdant stands of timber were denuded by ax-happy hikers hunting for firewood, and trails became littered with trash...
...seemed that Pinero might be germinating a new plot. Approaching a subway token booth in a downtown Manhattan station around 12:35 a.m., he was overtaken by a swarm of youths, who vaulted the token turnstiles and boarded a train. When the token seller cursed them as "Spanish trash," Pinero let loose with a few oaths of his own. Picked up by a transit cop on a charge of harassment, Miguel got rather more attention than he had bargained for. A marijuana joint found in his dungarees pocket earned him a minor charge of carrying drugs...