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...Boston City "Councilman Albert O'Neal predicted yesterday the suit wil fail, saying the census is accurate because "people are moving out of the cities all the time. They are being forced out by crime, forced busing, and constant tax increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston, Cambridge File Suit To Force 1980 Census Recount | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...News recruits are not only putting out Tonight but also preparing daily special-interest sections like those successfully pioneered in New York by the Times starting in 1976. The sections, including a "Getting Ahead" feature on Tuesdays (dealing with personal finance and career advancement) and a Friday "Sports Extra," wil" debut in September. O'Neill hopes that these innovations will help the News turn around a serious erosion in circulation. Largely because many of the News's traditional blue-collar readers have moved o the suburbs, daily circulation has slid by 500,000 since 1970. This year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Gotham's War of Tabloids | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Though the FBI insists it was scrupulous in its questioning of suspects and made every effort to avoid entrapment, civil libertarians can contend that the operation smacks uncomfortably of Big Brother. FBI Director Wil liam Webster phoned Senator Larry Pressler to congratulate him for emerging clean from his bribery test. But, asks Congress man William Hughes, who also resisted temptation: "Is it proper for the Executive Branch to pose a litmus test for the legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Troubling Ethics of Abscam | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Bidding starts high and goes higher -roughly double last year's prices. Explanations vary. "We're totally greed motivated," jokes a restaurant owner from Seattle. "The only reason I'm paying $40,000 for a paneled room is because it wil help raise my take from $1 million to $2 million." Says Bob Snow, owner of the Rosie O'Grady entertainment-cum-preservation complexes in Orlando and Pensacola: "At the first auction I paid $4,500 for a real historic bar from Chicago. This year ordinary bars are bringing $45,000. 1 don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...their part in the Liuzzo killing. They too wanted to switch the subject, to the Liuzzo shooting. For the first time, they claimed that Rowe killed the woman. Rowe has admitted being present at the murder, but insists that he only pretended to shoot a pistol at her, while Wil kins fired the fatal shot. But Wilkins and Thomas waited for twelve years before giving their account to police, and some officers believe they are only trying to get even with Rowe for testifying against them at their trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Furor over an Old Informant | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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