Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could store a few boxes with them in Washington while she looked for another place to live. Then Maggie said she would like to move in to be with her boxes until her boyfriend Joe bought a condominium. Next Maggie asked whether Joe could move in "temporarily" until the condo deal was closed. When Lucy and Pablo Sanchez returned home from vacation last Christmas, they found their small living room crammed with his boxes and a second welcome mat next to their own on the front porch. Lucy Sanchez immediately did what any loving but put-upon parent would...
...Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Condo Pygmies, Deniros...
...seekers herald their arrival with windshield graffiti reading PADRE NAKED, TEQUILA TRUCK and SINK THE ISLAND. Youths have carted off street signs, & spray painted condo windows and littered the pristine beach with cans and bottles. Says Fire Department Aide Bobbye Dowda: "Ceilings are torn out. Kids dare you to run into them on the street...
Traveling from area to area only one thing remained consistent: development. Here a condo, there a condo--each mountain is adding real estate to its list of profit-making activities. But the building boom isn't only at the bottom of the mountain. Every area has been expanding lift facilities, cutting new trails, and increasing snowmaking capacity...
Similarly, though a white condo owner's voice of rationality may tell him that the purchase of a unit down the hall by a Black professional is not about to lower the property values in a mid-town building, he resists accepting his new neighbor. How does he reconcile his preconceptions about Blacks to this situation when the only Black person he knows personally is his cleaning lady? He may even know other Blacks professionally, but he still clings to his ability to distance himself socially...