Word: condos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because they advocate housing reform, Coalition '85 candidates are seen as nabbing the votes of the city's condominium owners, upper to middle class, college-educated, professional and liberal people who have felt disenfranchised because of the CCA's tough stance on condo conversion...
Meanwhile, Branson, the so-called "condo-candidate" two years ago, said the event was putting him back in the "Cambridge mentality," but that he still hadn't decided whether...
...favorite," carols a champion seller, arms out to lead a client into the pink, louvered privacy of the dressing rooms. Once inside, the client keeps up the conversation, almost a stream of consciousness, rambling from how her daddy picked her name to her plans for furnishing her new condo to her doctor's decision about her thyroid. Like a good Southern girl, she remains sociable and enthusiastic, even at 65, in her underwear...
...West. The town's charms are not readily apparent to a traveler, who usually sees only a six-mile treeless stretch of U.S. Highway 1, where bars and cheap shopping malls are chaotically assembled under the glaring sun, lined up with occasional fading signs offering time-share condo developments. It is hard to earn a living legally in the Florida Keys, and the local residents hold two firm contradictory beliefs: 1) zoning and planning are outrageous interferences with free enterprise, and 2) mentioning aloud the less than salubrious effects of noninterference might discourage tourists and is therefore something close...
...eight years ago, he recalls, "it was like paradise." But perhaps not for much longer. Laid-back little Telluride, Colo., remote hideout for a smattering of the trendy rich and uncrowded preserve of ski connoisseurs, seems about to be discovered. The hills are alive with the sound of condo construction; resort developers are poised on their bulldozers. And a big part of the reason is that the hippies who crash-landed there in the '70s have changed. Says Durfee Day, who arrived in 1969: "Basically the whole town turned...