Word: paying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...main cause of homelessness in the '80s was the poor being squeezed out of the housing market. In the 1970s and '80s, the average rent grew twice as fast as the average income. Manufacturing jobs disappeared: of the 12 million new jobs created since 1979, more than half pay less than $7,000 a year, and many provide no health insurance. One serious illness, and a worker could spiral into poverty and onto the streets. Meanwhile, a 1981 change in welfare laws meant that a quarter of a million families with children lost all their public assistance, and an additional...
This would, of course, be tremendously expensive, what with the cash we'd have to pay some fool to place small magnetic strips on ten million books. But the benefits would likely be worth it. The system is virtually foolproof. No more books would be stolen...
...third option is the honor system, which, in essence, we use already. We currently have all the disadvantages of an honor system (stolen books) and none of the advantages (feeling of trust between administration and students, money saved that we now pay to useless checkers...
...books, magazines, dictionaries--you name it--are still stolen every day. Our tuition goes not only to replace those materials (many of which are rare and quite expensive), but we also have to pay for these book-checkers to listen to their Walkmans and arch their necks each time they pass by. Add to that the cost though is the frustration of doing without stolen books and magazines that haven't been replaced, and you have a serious problem...
...Crimson has been blessed with eight league matchups at home this year, but will start to pay the price in January. The Crimson opens the new year with St. Lawrence and Clarkson, and then travels to the Yale Whale and Brown's Meehan Auditorium before breaking for exams...