Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report to the city council, the agents recommended that the city change its density requirements to 80 percent of their current levels. If developers wanted to increase the density of their projects to what they have now they would have to contribute either money earmarked for housing or the actual units themselves. The firms would put up part of the money with the city kicking in the rest. All at once this statistics the legal requirements that the city offer developers incentives, calms neighborhood tears of overbuilding and lessens considerably the financial burden on builders...
Ginsberg: Yes. That's because I wasn't in the actual war--I was in the media war. So I was just reporting what I could contact with my own senses, which I think was wise. I didn't have to fake going into the war because I was interested in the war's affect on my own and America's consciousness. I stopped with what I was actually experiencing through my senses and maybe only once or twice imagined what it would be like to be a thin-bodied Vietnamese kid blown up by, napalm. I wrote about...
...stereotypes of the Harvard houses are based on actual differences According to Dean of the College John B. Fox his '59 study of House population, in 1982, the percentage of varsity athletes ranged from a high of 45.7 percent in one House to a low of 4.7 percent in another. The percentage of Black students ranged from 17 percent to 3 percent. There is no reason to believe the 1985 will figures will be much different because the current lottery ensures that stereotypes exist and persist. Freshmen undeniably choose the Houses according to stereotypes because they assume they will...
...fantasy, hero and bimbo attempt to defuse the situation, only to get captured, manacled and headed toward annihilation. But Dr. Castro is not Dr. No, Che is not Goldfinger, and the Cuban missile crisis was not some apocalyptic fantasy. It is to Buckley's credit that within his fiction, actual events are made as urgent and terrifying as they were in the bad old days...
...short, the economically desirable reductions in the budget deficit can be achieved politically by a comprehensive reduction in spending and a well- structured change in the tax rules. The combination of slower growth of defense spending and of Social Security benefits and actual reductions in a wide range of over-size, nondefense programs can lower outlays by $160 billion in 1989. But to reduce the deficit to less than 1% of G.N.P. and bring a balanced budget into sight will also require tax changes that raise 1989 tax revenues by $75 billion to $100 billion...