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Cummings then came to the main item on the agenda: what Huntington should do with the $31,000 in revenue-sharing money it will get from the state and federal governments this year. After voting some lesser items, including $5,000 for a landfill project and $1,391 for ambulance service, Cummings announced what he described as "the biggie"-a proposal to buy a new $40,000 fire truck to replace "the 1946 antique we've got down there...
...several dozen middle-level officeholders, however, a crisis is emphatically at hand. These are the lesser-known appointees who were given office space for a month by the Carter Administration to use as a base of operations for their job hunting. When the month was up, almost all the occupants of the various "Dearth Rows," as they were promptly dubbed, had to clear out. How come the Democrats were so generous in the first place? No mystery. They might be needing the same kind of favor four or eight years hence...
...typical "Big Daddy" fashion, the dictator convened a giant rally in Kampala and invited the two ministers and the archbishop to attend. Then, a few lesser "suspects" were paraded forth to read out "confessions" implicating the three men. The archbishop smiled wanly and shook his head in disbelief when he heard his own name mentioned as one of the agents whom the exiled Milton Obote had chosen to help stage a coup. Amid soldiers' cries of "Kill them all!" a gracious Amin declared that, in all fairness, there would be "a proper military trial...
...quantity of reporting in Convention reminds one of Henry Fairlie commenting on John Toland's voluminous biography of Hitler. Toland claimed to have talked with new sources, including Hitler's sister. Fairlie said he thought of the time he and friends went to taste what were billed as the lesser known wines of Burgundy. Fairlie said at the end of the evening that he could see why they were the lesser-known wines of Burgundy--implying that maybe the reason nobody had talked to Hitler's sister was that she had nothing to say. But the final word on this...
...benefits to University workers during the three-month summer lay off period. Instead, the University began to offer its employees temporary jobs to tide them over the summer months. On the surface, this change might appear like a generous attempt to offer workers full summer salaries instead of the lesser unemployment benefits...