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...increasing numbers of whites moved to the suburbs, urban areas were saddled with a glut of housing that, by law, could be sold or rented only to other whites. As recently as last year, this white flight had left at least one apartment out of four in central Johannesburg unoccupied, and surplus housing nationwide reached a total of 37,000 units. Market forces gradually overcame legal ones, and whites began renting to nonwhites, often with the assistance of real estate agents who specialize in "C.I.A. listings," a coy abbreviation for "colored, Indian and African." In Johannesburg the largest concentrations...
...Still, many experts find the glut of health-oriented advertisements for real food difficult to swallow. Declares Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer-advocacy group in Washington: "Some of the ads may be honest, but you need a Ph.D. to tell the difference...
...glut of recent advertising campaigns touts the benefits of "real food," but nutritionists find many of them difficult to swallow...
Each museum visitor gets an emergency pack of 20 exclamation points at the door, just to keep his or her spirits up. No wonder the place is as full as a dry-county barbecue on Saturday night. If you want to really pig out on cultural gorging and glut without risking any hangover of thought, then Red Grooms, good ole boy extraordinaire, will...
Talk is cheap, which may be the simplest explanation for this unexpected glut of gab. Cable television and inexpensive satellite hookups provide the perfect forum for sparring candidates to receive free media exposure. The possibility of wide-open races also contributes to the outbreak of political logorrhea. When a candidate is running behind "Undecided" in the polls, a debate gaffe holds little risk. Small wonder that the strongest resistance to an all-talk campaign comes from the handlers of Bush, the candidate with the most to lose. Campaign Manager Lee Atwater complains, "The thing is just getting out of hand...