Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After his first night at home, above his family's tavern in Olyphant (pop. 5,138), Michael Metrinko looked out the window at the gently falling snow. "I knew at that moment that at last it was over," he says. "There I was, standing in the bedroom of my boyhood. Nobody was threatening me. No one was calling for my death. I was home...
Washington is a boom town whenever Administrations change, and this turnover is injecting new life into a real estate market that was beginning to sag after years of tight mortgage money and soaring prices. As soon as Reagan was elected, home prices began to rise. One three-bedroom condominium that had been on the market for nearly a year at $325,000 was hiked to $350,000 in November-and finally sold. Says Socialite-Realtor Vicki Bagley: "I guess the Reagan people are used to paying $2 million...
...bought the onetime home of Adlai Stevenson on Foxhall Road, with six bedrooms, 4½ baths, a circular drive, and 22-ft. gourmet kitchen. Asking price: $750,000. Secretary of State Alexander Haig for now is renting at the Colonnade, an elegant apartment building ten minutes from the State Department. Mrs. Haig thought she had found the right house, a five-bedroom Tudor-and even dragged the general away from some Inaugural festivities to look at it-but Haig decided that it was "not grand enough...
...husband alive again. At one point she asked State Department officials to stop phoning her because their news was never good. But as the negotiations took a promising turn in late fall, Angela Belk's spirits began to rise. She became actively involved in renovating the three-bedroom house that she and her husband own. She said last week: "I, too, feel that in some ways I have been a hostage...
...collecting a settlement, in part because of the sparse market confronting older workers. After his dismissal, Keane sent out 200 applications and did not get a single offer. He obtained a real estate license, but then high interest rates ruined the housing market. He moved from a five-bedroom house to a three-bedroom apartment and sold the family car, yet still could not keep up with his bills. Nevertheless, like many others in the same situation, what bothers him most is the smear on his record. This week he planned to seek a court order directing Amtrak to reinstate...