Word: gray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Washington Mayor Marion Barry handed a golden key to Kimi Gray last week, an unprecedented transaction was at hand: tenants of a once run-down public- housing complex were about to buy the property. Gray had been fighting for this moment since 1981, when she decided that the Kenilworth projects' 464 apartments needed tenant management. Gray organized and inspired the tenants, got them to keep their kids in school and hunt for jobs. By 1986, rent receipts were up 77%; Gray says welfare dependency, once as high as 85%, is down...
...this helped move Congress last year to allow public-housing residents to buy their own homes. Kenilworth tenants will have five years, beginning in 1990, to buy co-op shares representing home ownership. Amid talk of similar undertakings in a dozen other places, Gray modestly accounted for Kenilworth's remarkable achievement: "This happens when people want change...
...high. The Soviet icebreaker Admiral Makarov, which had been heading home when it was diverted to aid in the rescue, took nearly a day to reduce the barrier to rubble. By late afternoon a sister ship, the Vladimir Arseniev, plowed within 400 yds. of two California gray whales that had been trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Sensing that their escape was at hand, the whales, nicknamed Putu (Ice Hole) and Siku (Ice), swam out of their icy prison into the slush-filled channel, cheered on by more than 100 spectators. Said Arnold Brower Jr., a local whaling...
Coach: It's been a tough year for Joe Restic, the gray-hair mastermind of the Multiflex. The Crimson's chief was looking for victory number 100 this season. He will get it only if Harvard goes undefeated the rest of the way. Restic is 97-65-5 overall and 3-2 against the Terriers. Will he be able to direct his backup QB to glory...
Thompson also spent $750 consulting attorney Alec Gray on ways to monitor Graham's campaign. On Tuesday night he said he feared election officials might count ballots whose stickers had fallen off, and that there might be "violence at the polls" as a result of Graham's campaign...