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Local government officials are already restricted by Prop 2 1/2 from raising revenue for local services such as trash collection and snow removal...
...addition of 1,058 new police officers in October, the force will still be 14% smaller than its 1975 level of 31,683. Meanwhile crime, fueled by the drug epidemic, has jumped 25%. Since 1987, the number of street sweepers has been slashed from 1,400 to 300, trash collections in midtown Manhattan have been reduced by a third, and what used to be daily rounds in the outer boroughs have been reduced to twice a week. Epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and syphilis have pushed the health-care system to the breaking point. As many New Yorkers are waiting...
...Trash-Orientation-Week Game...
...battle against loitering teenagers, 7-Eleven stores thought about putting pointed lids on trash cans and flooding their premises with halogen lights. Finally the shops hit on the ultimate weapon: playing saccharine tunes guaranteed to send adolescents screeching into the night. Says 7-Eleven spokeswoman Margaret Chavris: "They won't hang around and tap their feet to Mantovani." Most teens agree. "Can you believe this nonsense?" says Ray LaVerne, 18, at Southland's store in Tillicum, Wash...
...blame that damned list for my problem--for making approach summer reading as a responsibility and a chore, rather than as the pleasure it should be. I also blame summer. Let's face it--summer is not a very interesting season. It's the time of year when trash novels are most popular because they can be whipped through in an afternoon at the beach...