Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terribly disappointed." Says he: "The prices are so much higher than where I come from: $20,000 or $30,000 more for the same thing. And the real estate taxes are four times what they are in the Dayton area." Demand is so hectic that Phillips had to move fast: the 19-year-old house that he chose was on the market all of 30 hours before he agreed to buy it for $68,500. It has three bedrooms and two baths but only a one-car garage; his house in Dayton has the same number of rooms...
...reflected in the monthly costs of owning a home. The costs?including mortgage payments, insurance, property taxes, heating, electricity and maintenance?rose 73.4% for older houses and 102.3% for new ones. The economists and other scholars who wrote the M.I.T.-Harvard study say that if house prices rise as fast, and incomes grow no more rapidly, over the next five years, "typical new homes in 1981 would sell for $78,000 ... the U.S. would become less and less a nation of homeowners...
...play the final game of his career in an October exhibition in New Jersey that will pit the Cosmos against Brazil's Santos team, his former squad (he will play the first half for the Cosmos, the second half for the Brazilians). Meanwhile, the soccer players are learning fast some of the more rewarding nuances of U.S. sports. They are in the process of forming a players' union to bargain for a bigger share of the gate receipts. Can soccer bubble-gum cards be far behind...
Registration for the Class of 1981 will commence promptly at 9 a.m., as freshmen begin to enter Memorial Hall and run the gauntlet of computer cards and fast-talking, experienced hucksters, and it will end sometime after...
Observers will argue for years about where the Popular Unity strategy failed. A few will say it tried to do too much too fast, and so lost the support of the more moderate wing of Chile's left. Others will say Allende moved too slowly in his efforts to restructure Chile's economy and society, failing to create an alternative to capitalism attractive enough to bring the lower middle class into the U.P. coalition against the foreign and big capital that controlled the economy. Still others will say that the U.P. should have given up trying to conciliate the middle...