Word: hud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developers tend to plan better and build better. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development should help to finance-not simply guarantee loans covering-the high early costs (planning, road and sewer building) of new towns whose builders pledge to include substantial amounts of housing for the poor. HUD should also streamline bureaucratic procedures now ensnarling existing programs. For their part, local governments should help to hold down soaring land prices in regions that are becoming urbanized so that big parcels of land there can be acquired without producing windfalls for speculators. This might be done by levying heavy...
Women with money to lose seek him out; he looks like a cross between Hud and Nathan Detroit. Wealthy businessmen challenge him, knowing that they will lose; it is something of a distinction to be skinned by one of the world's best poker players. Last week Thomas Austin Preston Jr., 44, better known as Amarillo Slim because of his home town and his build (6 ft. 2 in., 165 lbs.), had no time for the sheep...
...Under HUD's formula the block grant will be equivalent to the initial categorical grant received by the City agency in the past," the spokesman said yesterday. "But this formula does not make any provision for the secondary 'Piggyback' grants that agencies have been so dependent...
Laurence O. McKinney '66 is head of The of a Hud-funded project to test urban education company based in Cambridge...
...m.p.h. mini-dragster called "the Hud." It looks deceptively like a 1973 Camaro. But, lightened by a fiber-glass body and fueled by explosive nitromethane, the car can streak down a quarter-mile from a standing start in 6½ seconds. To achieve that flash of glory, two Chicago pipefitters labored five hours a night, putting together the right combination of engine, transmission and body. "Your car not only has to run fast, it has to look good," says the Hud's wrench (chief mechanic), Tom Jordan, 33. "If your $1,500 paint gets chipped, that...