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Booming land prices seriously affect the big housing developers, who must construct more expensive homes to recover the cost of the plot and thus risk losing their mass market. Dallas' Centex Construction Co., the fourth biggest U.S. home builder, had to go 20 miles outside Chicago to find land cheap enough for its middle-income Elk Grove Village. The asking price for virgin land 30 miles from San Diego-with no houses around, no sewage or water service-is $3,500 an acre. Sometimes the price can kill a project. After land along a Houston freeway doubled in price...
...University opposed the "expanding enrollments" clause; the administration had hoped to use funds from the bill to construct an undergraduate science center on Oxford...
Answering a question at his press conference yesterday, Peabody said only that "the two college heads expressed the hope it would not be necessary to construct the overpasses...
...Educational Facilities Laboratories. But estimates are that the whole thing could be duplicated for about $25,000-$10,000 for the bubble, $4,500 for the asphalt base, $10,000 for the vinyl grass. In comparison, a real grass court, even without the bubble, costs about $25,000 to construct and requires the additional expense of upkeep and maintenance. The Forman court, if damaged or worn bare, can be replaced easily square by square. The new surface is already considered so successful that Manhattan's Little Red School House is currently interested in installing an outdoor vinyl playground...
...young seem to be earnestly trying to construct their own code, and are even rediscovering for themselves some of the older verities. "They are piecing together lives which are at least as whole as their parents," says Lutheran Minister Martin Marty. They marry early-probably too early-and they give the impression of escaping into marriage almost with a sense of relief. Often they are disappointed by what marriage brings...