Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another group of new condo owners seeking exemption from Cambridge's tough anti-condominium conversion ordinances came to city hall last night, but the city council postponed discussion of the case for at least two weeks...
...much American housing, of course, is panoramicaily 11 sipidmass-stamped suburbs as standardized as boxes on super market shelves, the endless Amway and Tupperware America. It may be fatuous to envision new splendors of design in a nation going to condo and cluster. But interesting, occasionally bizarre ideas are turning up. In the Midwest some builders are digging underground houses with skylights and atriums and a thick dome of earth on top that eliminates abrupt temperature changes from season to season. Friends, even strangers, are getting together to buy a house and share it. Under some arrangements, two couples...
Americans, a nation of transients, seldom linger long enough in a condo to give it ghosts. There was a time when houses-some houses-sheltered whole generations in sequence, witnessed them and thus acquired a numinous life of their own, a moral dimension that was once much sentimentalized. It was real enough all the same...
...area at the tip of the Florida peninsula known as the East Everglades. Like Everglades National Park, just to the west, it is still unspoiled, filled with palmettos and sawgrass, marshes and wildlife. And that is the problem. Eager to escape Florida's crowded, condo-filled coast, the homesteaders have picked one of the state's most ecologically fragile regions, essential to the environmental well-being of all of South Florida...
...Batista, 38, son of the island's late dictator, Fulgencio Batista, who was ousted by Castro in 1959. Jorge may be excused for being a little out of touch with political realities; he has lived mostly in Europe for the past 20 years. Now, from his Fort Lauderdale condo, he believes he "can feel the political heartbeating of my compatriots." But Jorge's counterrevolutionary passions are tempered by practicality. He works as a runway model at fashion shows and attends modeling school. "It is a finishing school for me," he says. "It will help me lead...