Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Percy's plan-a major plank in his 1966 Senate campaign-calls for the establishment by the Federal Government of a nationwide, nonprofit, private housing federation that would buy and rebuild slum dwellings, then sell them to low-income families on a unit-by-unit basis, thus giving the man in the slum a stake in his own neighborhood. Working from a base of a threeyear, $60 million Government outlay and $2 billion in federal debenture bonds, the plan would ultimately generate up to $1.3 billion in rehabilitated housing...
...increasingly hostile to them. Their leaders say that they will now concentrate on community action, and wistfully speak of a coalition of the universities and the poor-but that will not work either. The poor are not radical. What they really want to be is middleclass, and once they buy a car and make a down payment on a house, they will ignore the New Left and stick with their unions or political parties...
...Reading Dynamics develops as Mrs. Wood and her partisans contend, someday soon Bob Richards will appear on the television screen grinning healthfully and advising earnest young Americans to buy "Wheaties, Breakfast of Speed Readers"; and parents will be consoling their disgruntled children with "Don't worry son, you can't speed read...
...University will continue to buy more common stock, Bennett said, until it reaches that "practical limitation--the point beyond which you wouldn't want all your money" in the always slightly risky world of the market. Daily, or even yearly, shifts in the market don't really concern Harvard, he said, because an investment fund is set up so as not to succeed or fail on the strength of day to day market fluctuations -- Harvard, says Bennett, doesn't bother with "interim moves...
...general, add much to this excellent book. Where the intent is light humor, they succeed modestly; but Lowell and Juvenal are similar in that they frequently intend to repel through the use of humor not light but grim, and Mr. Nolan's attempts to repel only amuse. But one buys the book to read Lowell, and what one reads is surely contemporary poetry of the first rank. After twenty years, this seems for the present generation closer to fact than opinion, though taste in succeeding ones will doubtless fluctuate. For the present. I must make the canned appeal to those...