Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, officials also worked until dawn Wednesday morning. At 3:30 a.m., senior State Department aides phoned the White House and had their urgent call put through to the President's bedroom. Informed of the difficulties that had arisen and what Waldheim was doing about them, a groggy Carter told the aides to meet him in the Oval Office in two hours. The Administration meanwhile toughened the statement about the commission that it had drafted the previous week...
...painstaking care with which Daniel completes the scorecard does not go to waste since he later pastes them on his bedroom walls...
...circle who could be counted on to steal her man. She was as slow to see this as she was quick to spot the first signs of young genius. Roussy Mdivani, the lovely girl who made off with Sert, whom Misia adored, actually managed to crawl into their bedroom the last time Sert made love to his wife without Misia's realizing it at the time...
...What we are seeing," says San Francisco Realtor Rosalynn Graham, "is that there are fewer apartments available. Therefore, people have to pay a higher price for them." A two-bedroom apartment that went for $400 a month last year in San Francisco's North Beach today fetches $850. In New York City, where rents have been rising 15% to 20% annually for the past three years, one-bedroom apartments command $1,000 a month and two-bedrooms start at $1,500 in new Manhattan buildings...
Very little construction is under way to replace this lost housing. Building costs are stratospheric-often $40,000 and up per two-bedroom unit-and speculators can make more money buying existing properties, raising the rents and selling out a few years later. Construction financing is expensive and difficult to get. Says Robert Mascaro, an Atlanta property manager: "We don't just pick up the phone like we did five or six years ago and say, 'I want $2 million...