Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Haley is one of 98 property owners who will pay an in-kind tax this year by doing carpentry, delivery, light painting, custodial or clerical work for the city. Hartford, it seems, thinks it is important that they stay put, even though they cannot pay their tax bills in cash...
...overseer of the unique and practical program that allows indigents to work off their tax bills in part-time services to the city (they receive no cash) is David Hargreaves, 34. Says Hargreaves, saying it all: "These people are rich resources." Mary Haley is, anyway. Three years ago, a divorce propelled her into the baffling world of taxes, mortgages, bills. "I knew a lot about taking care of babies," she says, "but I didn't know much about anything else." Untrained, with only a high school education, she was stunned when the $1,100 city property tax bill arrived...
...into an exercise of total unpredictability. As he well knows, he has only the slimmest chance of winning the presidency. Just getting on the ballot will require him to wage a long guerrilla campaign through a swamp of bewilderingly complex state election laws, and he will get no federal cash because he is not running as a party man. Historically, voters regard an independent candidacy as hopeless and make their choice between the major-party nominees...
...boatmen paid little heed to the Government's threats, and the rescue navy continued to grow. "They have to say that," shrugged one skipper. Relatives of the refugees were already waiting on Florida's docks with cash in hand, ready to pay the fines in case the boats carrying their kinfolk were seized. Chances are that few if any fines will be imposed or collected. "Look at the dimensions and emotion of all this," said one weary customs officer, waving his hand across the crowded Key West docks. "How could we possibly do anything to stop...
Along the way, Daly legends sprouted. While rebuilding a newly bought but burned-out plane in London in 1956, the tightfisted entrepreneur saved cash by sleeping for more than a month in the same limousine that he used to visit bankers. In the last days of the Viet Nam War, Daly organized, paid for and flew on a World mercy flight into Danang hours before the North Vietnamese captured the city. The self-styled "old bastard" pistol-whipped and kicked mutinous South Vietnamese troops who tried to board the refugee flight...