Word: co-op
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...Beit Sahur, a town near Bethlehem, a group of local men started an agricultural cooperative in March. Walid Hawash, 29, runs the co-op's shop, selling seeds, tools and herbicides at cost to any residents who wish to start "victory" gardens. "We are doing this so the people can feed themselves," says Hawash. Last week Israeli soldiers threatened to close Hawash's store. "They say what we are doing is politics," says Hawash. "But we are only trying to live." Nearby, freshly turned earth marks a new garden that will feed 42 families come harvest time. Hawash obliquely acknowledges...
...that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor...twelve-foot ceilings...two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help... Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachsund. The floor was a deep green marble, and it went on and on. It led to a five-foot walnut staircase that swept up in a sumptuous curve to the floor above. It was the sort of apartment the mere thought of which ignites flames...
Tenants and officials said that if HRI buys the building, it may eventually convert it to condominiums under a limited equity co-op plan that would make the tenants co-owners. Such an arrangment would require the consent of 80 percent of the tenants...
Power and those it attracts are the subjects of Wolfe's novel. And Sherman McCoy is at the heart of it all--the axis of a limited world, the universe of social New York. The world where $1 million a year is barely enough income and the Co-op board has more control over your life than the police...
...Rather is intense and fiercely competitive. But few have many more clues to his elusive personality. "Dan is a man of many moods, a complicated man, hard to figure," says one who has worked closely with him. Rather, who lives with his wife Jean in an East Side Manhattan co-op, avoids the city's social scene. A workaholic who usually gets by on four hours' sleep a night, he spends his spare hours reading, watching sports on TV and fly- fishing in the Catskills during summer vacations...