Word: buildings
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...present level. OMB objects to her complaint, arguing that what is really pinching HUD's housing money is its plan for a new $1.3 billion demonstration project involving mixed-income rental housing. OMB insists that if that costly project was shelved, HUD would indeed be able to build almost as many new housing units as it says it wants. Whoever is correct-and that may never be determined, given the intricacies of federal budget making-what irks the White House most is the fact that the dispute became public. Though HUD officials deny that they leaked the memo, Carter...
...David accords, "but there must be some modifications." His most important demands: 1) participation by the Palestine Liberation Organization in the negotiations; 2) clarification of the status of the West Bank and Gaza following the five-year interim period; 3) assurances that the Israelis will dismantle their settlements and build no more...
Whoever follows will lead a fairly healthy nation, but he will confront serious problems as well. Boumedienne used oil revenues and international loans to build a modern society and revive the flagging Arab culture he had come from. A socialist and revolutionary ideologue who turned to Moscow for military assistance, the pragmatic Boumedienne also looked west for markets and technology. The U.S. has become Algeria's principal trading partner, buying oil and, more important, natural gas, while providing factories for consumer goods and training to teach Algerians to run the new facilities...
...last year. In the past four years, Common Market governments have spent about $650 million annually in subsidies to keep the yards busy and 214,000 workers on the payroll. Even so, more drastic cuts are ahead. By 1980 the yards in the European Community are expected to build only half of last year's 5.4 million tons, and the number of workers will probably be reduced...
Times Newspapers Ltd. Managing Director Marmaduke Hussey insists that even if the Times suspends, it will not be gone forever: "Our aim is to build the Times up and keep it going." Bracing for at least a temporary loss of their daily breakfast companion, some readers have offered touching pledges of loyalty. Wrote David Fitzpatrick from Sheffield: "A day without the Times is a desolate day, but if you must leave us for a time in order to put your house in order, so be it. We will be waiting when you return...