Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...profit corporation founded in 1975 with federal funding to secure home-improvement loans from banks previously unwilling to lend credit to residents of the Mission Hill area...
...Though their support for Israel, as the embodiment of the Jewish people, remains as solid as the stone blocks in the Western Wall, many American Jews balked at being used as extras in Shamir's biblical unity epic. Some of those invited journeyed to Jerusalem with misgivings; others stayed home. The open criticism from American Jews is raising fears in Jerusalem, which depends on the U.S. for military and economic survival. Says Yossi Ahimeir, director of the Prime Minister's bureau: "When the U.S. Administration sees that support of American Jews for Israel is diminishing, it can allow itself...
Wheelwright recalls this and subsequent apocalypses from his home in Toronto, where he has lived as an expatriate for 20 years. Assimilation is difficult; Canada is under the perpetual influence of a hot-air mass pumped in by media from the south, and Wheelwright is a U.S. news junkie. As one character puts it, "Television gives good disaster...
Imagining baseball without Rose is hard, but imagining Rose without baseball is horrible. On plane rides home from the World Series, he used to calculate the number of days to spring training. He marks time by the inning, even in references to his birth in 1941, usually adding, "the year of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak." During Rose's own hitting streak in 1978 -- the National League standard of 44 -- he was caught in a paternity suit, and his marriage was dissolving. Only between the white lines of the field was he serene. Last week, before...
...this is about as expected, Willey says on the drive home. If he can get all sides to settle on a price, his next job may be more difficult. In its last days, the Reagan Administration stated it had no objections to water marketing (in a memo written by an Assistant Secretary now handling water- project bonds at Drexel Burnham Lambert). But other voices may object to the idea that farmers who receive subsidized water for crops, and further subsidies not to grow those crops, should profit handsomely on the sale of the subsidized water. Willey argues that the profits...