Summary
No one should be scratching his or her head over the reason why the local library has been looking as if it is Times Square on New Year's Eve lately. People who can no longer afford to buy books, movies, and CDs are borrowing them from the library. And even those who are still reasonably solvent are nervous, squeezing every dollar until the eagle screams. When people decide to economize, it's common for them to drop the cable television subscription and turn off the high speed Internet. Given the state of the economy, a solid argument could be made that libraries are less of an expendable "quality of life" service and more of a necessity.
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The Washington Monument Syndrome
George Hartzog, the seventh Na- tional Park Service director, served during the Nixon ad- ministration and was the first such official ever fired from his position.
Despite the fact that his department continued to increase the amount of pro pert)' under its purview, the park service started 1969 with a smaller staff an...See the full content of this document
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