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...costs: today's average home buyer has to save 50% of / a full year's income just to put up the down payment, as opposed to 33% in 1978. As a result, those buying homes tend increasingly to be those lucky enough to have parents from whom they can borrow money. Then, when they need a bigger home to accommodate a growing family, often the best they can hope for is to inherit their parents' house rather than to build or buy a bigger one themselves...
...strange. Someone on the spur of the moment decided to borrow it," Montville said. "My initial reaction was disbelief that anyone would want to steal a van with something as conspicuous as 'Harvard Dining Services' written across its side...
Dukakis' plan will eliminate the need for such decisions. To borrow from Jesse Jackson, it places public health above private wealth...
...Nearly no one but Jackie was both. "From being a cheerleader at the youth center, I knew at the age of nine that I could jump. That's when I started running and jumping off my porch." A firemen's brigade of siblings used a potato-chip bag to "borrow" sand from the center and install a landing pit off the porch. Jackie's main co-conspirator was her older brother Al, whom she could beat at everything. "I didn't have a big brother," Al says. "I had Jackie." Through a fluttering porch-side window shade, enjoying the sounds...
...Abilene, for example, where B-1 bombers are based, the G.O.P. will charge incorrectly that Dukakis may scrap the program; messages beamed to the predominantly Roman Catholic Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley will stress Bush's opposition to abortion. Dukakis will counter by assailing the Administration's "borrow-and-spend" economics and accuse it of failing the oil-and-gas industry. He is further appealing to conservative values by blasting the Republicans' failure to win the war on drugs...