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Stendahl said the original recommendation that the office be left vacant after Lykes leaves at the end of this semester was always conditional on the financial situation of the school...
Costly Cabbie. Still, Buffalo also discovered its dark side during the siege. There was widespread looting of abandoned vehicles and vacant drug and jewelry stores. On a single night, 60 arrests were made by justifiably angry police. There were some profiteers too. One taxi driver would not take stranded people from the Greater Buffalo International Airport to a motel-a distance of about 100 yards-unless he could round up five-passenger loads at $10 per person...
...penalty box, which had resembled a Howard Johnson's Motor Inn in the B.U.-Northeastern fracas, was delightfully vacant. Nobody seemed to miss seeing a power-play...
...Daley's other powerful post, as chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee (party boss), was also vacant. The ten days between Hizzoner's death and the filling of those positions truly "shook Chicago," as the city's Sun-Times put it, but the power plays and deals cut would no doubt have made the old man proud...
Frozen Out. Not this year. With only the barest dusting of powder in the high country, lifts are closed, lodges vacant and resort attendance off as much as 90% in some areas. About 10,000 skiers a day customarily pack the slopes at Heavenly Valley, but this year there are fewer than 1,000. At nearby Squaw Valley, the management has cut its staff to a mere 20 employees, v. the normal 700. So many of California's lodges have closed that unemployment rolls in Mono County have reached 20%, and applications for food stamps are running so high...