Word: capes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly is. In large swaths of the U.S., from Cape Cod to Los Angeles, from San Francisco to Long Island, in New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis and such depressed markets as Denver and Houston, signs abound that the long, bleak housing slump is easing. As the rebound percolates through one market after another, real estate agents, mortgage bankers and builders forecast a heartening home-buying surge this spring...
...brokers can list them. At the Greater Boston & Real Estate Board, officials say pending sales are up 55% for the first seven weeks of the year. In Wellesley, Mass., last week a broker was just taking out his hammer to put up his sign in front of a shingled Cape Cod overlooking a lake when a man emerged from the house. "Put the sign away," said the buyer. "It's already sold...
...moral pillar of American isolationism. Wherever the American banner has been raised in the past decade -- Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua and now the Persian Gulf -- isolationists have demanded to know, How can we in good conscience oppose bad guys there and not land Marines in Port-au-Prince or Cape Town...
...Libya, Horwitz finds a designer dictator dressed in a cape, tartan sweater and red wool hat. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is also given to mismatched profundities, like "Woman is a female and man is a male" and "Democracy means popular rule, not popular expression...
...Good A day on the sands of Cape...