The deluxe model applies a spark to the gas tank. From Hammacher Schlemmer’s new catalog (Fall 1989): “EXECUTIVE’S PRIVATE PARKING SPACE GUARD.É Using ultrasonic waves, it detects cars entering your space and immediately sounds an adjustable 120 dB alarm which alternates with a synthesized voice message that says ‘Warning! Reserved parking. Please move your car or it will be towed.’”
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Convenient memory. “The Chicago Tribune has already taken to extolling Daley’s housing record, and proclaiming Daley to be better on housing than Sawyer or Washington,” writes Deborah Weiner in the Network Builder (July-August 1989). “The Trib failed to point out that the [low-income-housing] trust fund was defeated in City Council when Sawyer was mayor by Daley forces who wanted their man to take the credit for the legislation.”
Now, don’t you feel safer? Security advice from Chicago Apartments’ Tim Wiley, quoted in Real Estate Profile (August 11-24): “The difference between Uptown and Lincoln Park isn’t safety, it’s ‘prettiness.’ Truthfully–people look at how pretty a neighborhood is. My advice is, don’t be confused and lulled into a false sense of security because an area looks nice. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Some ship. From the Illinois Tax Foundation’s new Budget Watch Reporter (August 1989): “Changing spending patterns is like changing the course of an ocean liner; often the adjustments are measured by only minor degrees, and an eternity can pass before a correction is visible. Nevertheless, we believe in the public’s right to try.”
