Word: good
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...spending of $1 billion over two years, but attorneys for the homeless had to sue the Government to get the funds moving out of a clogged federal pipeline. The $500 million in first-year funds, haphazardly distributed in hundreds of U.S. cities, so far has done little tangible good. Last February, Reagan signed the Housing and Community Development Act, which provides assistance to 152,000 needy families and authorizes the renovation of 10,000 run-down public-housing units. Neither bill does anything to encourage the desperately needed construction of new low-cost housing...
...thoughtful manager whose unusual breadth has never required him to let out his pants. Over eight seasons with the Chicago White Sox and three in Oakland, La Russa has grown increasingly sensitive to the nagging charge of being an attorney-at-law. Branch Rickey and Miller Huggins were good baseball men and members of the bar, but the A's skipper has had trouble finding comfortable acceptance among his tobacco-splattered peers. In his THE BALLET SCHOOL T shirt, under his NO CIGAR SMOKING PLEASE sign, La Russa sometimes yearns to be a little more like Lasorda, who sometimes yearns...
Never one to pass up a good thing, billionaire developer Donald Trump entered the airline business last week. He bought the shuttle from Frank Lorenzo, who owns Texas Air, which owns Eastern, for roughly $365 million in cash. For that Trump gets a fleet of 17 Boeing 727s, landing facilities in Boston, New York City and Washington, and the right to stencil his already ; household name on the tail of an Establishment institution. And never one to leave well enough alone, Trump vowed to run it as a "diamond," with immaculate planes swooping in and out on time, providing...
Trump is also in a good position to boost northeast-corridor profits even further. Shuttle prices have been going up, from $69 in 1985 to $99 today, while fuel costs are going down. As the cash purchase demonstrated, Trump has the capital to expand and improve service in ways that Lorenzo could not. He is also likely to be spared the crippling labor disputes that have dogged Lorenzo and prior owners for the past ten years. Lorenzo has been wrestling with his unions in an effort to cut costs, and the infusion of cash is likely to strengthen his hand...
...very tight little ship. You couldn't get to the candidate himself, so you had to take too much second- or even thirdhand. The candidate had some very good people around, but they were always hiding him from...