Word: condominium
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...Clemente is adjusting calmly to the reduced estate of its most famous resident. Souvenir hunters quickly made off with signs referring to the city as the "home of the Western White House." One mile northeast of the Nixon house, the 300-unit condominium development called "Presidential Heights" continues to advertise that "nearly every hillhouse home has a view of the Western White House." Real Estate Broker Charles Day said last week that the ad may be changed, but not the name. "It's been very successful," he insisted. "It has the connotation of quality and success...
...Since 1955, the Fords have lived in a relatively modest four-bedroom home in Alexandria, Va. They also own two homes and a two-story apartment in Grand Rapids, as well as a condominium in Vail, Colo., where they regularly go for skiing vacations. In 1973, Ford's net worth was estimated...
...return Gurney and two of his aides, with the help of two local HUD officials, supposedly channeled mortgage insurance housing-project contracts to those kicking in. The indictment also charges that Gurney "corruptly solicited and accepted" a fifth-floor ocean-front apartment in a Vero Beach condominium in return for pressuring HUD to give the developer mortgage insurance...
...Europeans have another reservation about détente. They are worried that a "superpower condominium" will settle major issues without consulting them. Former French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, for instance, believed that détente was not really a relaxation of tensions but an equilibrium of power, "a kind of modus vivendi in the management of world affairs between the U.S. and the Soviet Union." Jobert was probably right, at least in part, but the Europeans cannot realistically expect an equal voice with Moscow and Washington
...busy off the field that he says, only half in jest, "I play baseball as a sideline." A typical day off begins in midmorning when Jackson climbs out of bed in his penthouse apartment overlooking downtown Oakland. (Later this year he will move into an $85,000 condominium in the Berkeley Hills.) Once he has selected the day's outfit from three oversized closets that contain 100 shirts and pairs of pants, twelve leather jackets ("I've got every color") and a dozen hats, he heads to a diner called Lois the Pie Queen for brunch...