Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, costs less per gallon than bottled no-lead spring water. Never mind economy, however. There are congested localities such as Aspen, Colo., and Missoula, Mont., where wood burning is immoral, toxically wasteful and severely curtailed. The sweet-smelling, picturesque blue-gray smoke rising from Grandma's condo on a crisp December morning simply loads the air with too much additional junk...
There is much in this grand old man of Cambridge that will be missed. Probably the mayor's best known attribute among Harvard students is his rhetorical fondness for bashing academia. Others may know him for his attacks on condo developers, sanctimonious do-gooders and bureaucrats, or his promotion of worthy causes from world peace to Italian home cooking...
...those Manhattan skyscrapers, notably Trump Tower, "the ultimate piece of property," a Fifth Avenue glitzshop-and-condo palace, with an 80-ft. waterfall splashing down the pink marble walls of the atrium, that cost $200 million to build in 1982; Trump Plaza, a 37-story East 61 Street castle that has housed, among others, Dick Clark and Martina Navratilova; and Trump Parc, a 37-story caravansary that was once the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel, overlooking Central Park...
...supposed to come naturally? The answer is dismally simple. "They are just too busy. If you are working 60 to 80 hours a week, there is very little time to go out hunting. Single people have organized their lives to get what they want: the good education, the condo, the car. Then one day they say, Gee, I want to be married. So they hire a consultant like me to help them. They can't buy love really -- but kind...
Proposition 1-2-3 would turn Cambridge into "a city in which you would have to be rich in order to be able to live here," Sullivan says, since it would result in "massive condo conversion" and raise the cost of housing in general...