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...problem. It seemed that many students from other Houses, tempted by its convenient location and tasty food, were making use of its dining facilities. Adams didn’t want to be rude, but it had to do something about the overcrowding that had led to food shortages, unpaid overtime for dining hall workers and an atmosphere more like Grand Central Station at rush hour than the easy collegial milieu they’d come to expect...
...parking easier. If the city wants to take in missing revenue by collecting on outstanding parking tickets, then it should increase enforcement efforts in traditional, reasonable and non-discriminatory ways. But if the city wants to target students based on some unproven notion that students are disproportionately responsible for unpaid fines, or simply because students are a transient, vulnerable and unrepresented group, then it should think twice. Encroaching upon the academic prerogatives of the universities and specifically targeting students, the dynamic lifeblood of this region, is no way to run a city...
...would be well advised to repay it fast because Jianjun charges interest rates of up to 5.7% a month. It's all legal and above board. Although regulators and law enforcement officials in the past have cracked down on underground lenders (loan sharks tend to use gangsters to collect unpaid debts), the government currently allows pawnshops to operate because without them, small-business owners would have almost nowhere else to turn. "Banks make it difficult and confusing to get a loan," Jianjun says with a smile. "Our business is booming...
...armies of workers laid off by failing enterprises?and angry, laid-off workers are the biggest threat to the country's stability. Sichuan has seen its fair share of trouble: last June, traffic in Chengdu came to a halt on two occasions when workers held a protest about unpaid salaries; in September, 800 oil refinery workers in Chongqing demonstrated over paltry severance payments...
Kitzinger fled to England from Nazi Germany in 1935, where he settled into a job as an unpaid assistant at the British Museum...