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...opposed to 33% in 1978. As a result, those buying homes tend increasingly to be those lucky enough to have parents from whom they can borrow money. Then, when they need a bigger home to accommodate a growing family, often the best they can hope for is to inherit their parents' house rather than to build or buy a bigger one themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Better Off? | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...next President will inherit an accretion of earlier guiding principles named after his various predecessors. Joseph Stalin's probes provoked the Truman Doctrine: "It must be the policy of the U.S. to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The U.S. set about, through a combination of diplomacy, economic assistance and military alliances, to create an international environment that would "contain" the Soviet empire within its own boundaries, forcing the Marxist-Leninist-Stali nist system to stew in its own poisonous juices. The author of that strategy, George Kennan, believed Soviet Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Policy: Beyond Containment | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Striedter and his wife, co-Master Emanuela Striedter, inherit a house which has just completed major renovations as part of a more than two-year, $120 million project at the Radcliffe Quad. Cabot's previous masters, Myra A. Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts, and Alexander A. Bernhard, announced last February they would not renew their appointment this summer for personal reasons...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Two House Agendas | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Striedter and his wife, co-Master Emanuela Striedter, inherit a house which has just completed major renovations as part of a more than two-year, $120 million project at the Radcliffe Quad. Cabot's previcus masters, Myra A. Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts, and Alexander A. Bernhard, announced last February they would not renew their appointment this summer for personal reasons...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Two House Agendas | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

...less pertinent today: "I do not hold title to the lands, but I reap every benefit and every injury to them. Believe it or not, you and I are the guardians of these hills. They are God's hills and we are the keepers. More than that, we shall inherit the manifold blessings of the hills. They are our hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: David, West Virginia | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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