Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer to my low student-income prayers. A home, with utilities and air conditioning, offered to me for the minimal price of domestic chores and gardening responsibilities. Who are these fools, and why do they trust...
Folly. Or stupidity? I consider myself a semi-bright student who mastered the art of taking phone messages sometime in my early teens. Yet, as a housesitter, I must straddle the fine line between being honest (that the owners will not be home until August) and being discreet. After all, I'm not sure I want all of Boston proper to know that the owners are gone, and this young, inexperienced and often careless student is now a temporary resident...
...electronic skills have been tested regularly while performing Rule Number Two: never leave the house without turning on the alarm system. Why a home with one key would have three keys for an alarm system defies logic, but I was willing to go along with...
...brokers who handled house sales for HUD and then failed to turn the money over to the Government were not "Robin Hood-type heroes . . . robbing the rich. They are stealing from the taxpayer and depriving low- and moderate- income people of the opportunity to realize the American dream of home ownership." He noted that HUD had even let some developers turn housing projects for retirees into havens for the wealthy. He cited a Florida project in which two-bedroom apartments rented for $2,100 a month...
...Sandinistas undertook to wipe out illiteracy, and for a while they almost did. But the voracious military budget swiftly eroded the gains, and by 1985 illiteracy had shot up to 30%. Children lucky enough to go to school often lug their own desk and chair from home to class...