Word: fairings
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...income housing. As the keystone of this effort, the Administration in 1983 introduced federal housing-subsidy vouchers that allow low-income families to rent housing wherever they can find it, at whatever price they can negotiate; the Government then subsidizes a portion of the cost based on a "fair market" price. The traditional federal subsidy program requires tenants to pay no more than 30% of their income in rent, and only for housing that matches a "reasonable" rent set by Washington...
...bullying and corner cutting. Taubes told TIME that in his opinion Rubbia "has made more mistakes than any major physicist of his era. He has a history of distorting and exaggerating his experimental results." Says Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow, a Harvard colleague of Rubbia's: "The book is a fair picture. I would make it required reading for anyone who wants to go into this field...
...sent to him in October, in which Hamilton paraphrased many letters he had earlier quoted. By that time Salinger had copyrighted the correspondence. Although the actual letters belonged to the recipients, by law the words remained his. In court, Salinger's lawyers argued that Hamilton went well beyond the "fair use" right of writers to describe or give examples of another's work. The two-judge appeals panel agreed, reversing a lower court that threw out Salinger's suit last November. The judges pointed out that the letters are used "on at least 40% of the book's 192 pages...
...American Enterprise Institute in Washington, lauds the Administration for its continuing antiprotectionist restraint in the face of pressure to enact much more sweeping measures. The latest White House trade initiative, he points out, is a "balancing act between politics and economics. They've played this game with a fair amount of success...
...room battles with the action on the tube. "It's exciting, it's magic. It looks and smells like the next trend in the toy industry," says Thomas Kalinske, president of toymaker Mattel. The interactive playthings are expected to be the hottest draw next week at the annual Toy Fair in Manhattan, where retail-store owners place huge orders for the coming year...