Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another program partially bankrolled by private money is tenant management, in which residents, after receiving training, take charge of public housing projects and work actively to provide themselves with a better living environment (see box). The performance in seven cities is spotty, but the results are a definite improvement over the dismal record of many other subsidized housing communities...
...other box would be checked by pro-abortionists, to have their tax money used for abortions for poor people...
...florid gestures of a born talker-is holding forth with enthusiasm. "I remember how frightened I was when I was first given access to Henry James' papers," he says. "They were in a basement room in Harvard's Widener Library-four tables piled high with boxes, each box containing 250 to 500 letters, plus trunks full of notebooks that had never been opened since James' death. I just stood there in a panic. Where should I start...
With Star Wars fast becoming the biggest moneymaker ever (box office receipts are $12 million a week), the movie industry is wasting no time jumping onto the spacewagon. 20th Century-Fox is already plotting its first Star Wars sequel, and other film makers are rushing to make their own sci-fi flicks before the fad wears thin. Judging from some of their plans, that may not take too long...
Because the debates among IMF members are necessarily secret, a strange mystique has settled around the Fund. The curious personality of Witteveen-part hard-nosed banker, part mystic (see box) -has only added to the organization's enigmatic reputation. The mystique is undeserved, since the delegates are as subject to emotion and nationalistic impulses as any businessman or politician...