Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report, spent $5,015,572 from July 1980 to February 1982 on housing repairs but improved only 554 of the 3,498 homes scheduled for work in that period. The city also budgeted $4,893,248 to insulate and in other ways weatherize 3,142 houses but managed to fix up only 507. According to HUD, the city spent $4,138 a building on administrative costs alone. Also charging that contracts had sometimes not been based on open bids, HUD disallowed or questioned some $5.6 million of the more than $23 million in block-grant funds that Boston had received...
...Genetic Fix Turning on fetal...
...pessimistically predicting, that it is going to improve. So what I am advocating is that we not let ourselves get so hypnotized with the deficit, serious though it may be, that we make unwise decisions that would create what we've had in the past-temporary, quick fixes for this immediate problem. We recognize that the way out of our problem today is an improved economy. Let's continue to make every decision based on not a temporary fix but on what we believe, in this economic system of ours, will improve the economy...
...Would you add defense or tax options into that misguided quick-fix category...
Repairs to fix leaks in other parts of the three-year-old building will keep the Q-Rac's squash and racquetball courts closed through next semester, but the Universal Gym--previously located in the damaged exercise room--has been moved into the main gym so students can use it while the repairs continue...