Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday, July 6, the Governors: Otis Bowen of Indiana; George Busbee of Georgia; Brendan Byrne of New Jersey; Hugh Carey of New York; Julian Carroll of Kentucky; Ella Grasso of Connecticut; James Hunt of North Carolina; Dixy Lee Ray of Washington...
...earlier in life-more often than before with family financial help-partly as a hedge against further inflation. Even with the new graduated payment mortgages that allow lower monthly outlays in the first few years, many people are dangerously overextending themselves. Says Norris Allman, 27, an engineer in New Jersey: "We finally made a decision that either we buy now or we would never be able to afford...
...such cities as New York and Los Angeles, the vacancy rate is under 1%, and landlords are using the shortage to vet prospective tenants and refuse those with modest incomes. Finding an apartment requires tramping the streets and often bribing doormen. Reports Norman Kailo, president of the New Jersey Association of Realtors: "Young marrieds are beginning to double up, and there are a lot of illegal conversions of one-family units into two-family...
...Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin have accepted the practice. Alaska, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, and West Virginia are now experimenting...
...Celmer Jr., of nearby Belmar, was convicted of drunken driving in Ocean Grove in 1976. He appealed, claiming that his conviction was invalid because the state legislature had unconstitutionally authorized the Camp Meeting Association of the United Methodist Church to establish Ocean Grove's police force. The New Jersey Supreme Court agreed unanimously, ruling that the theopolis' legal system and ordinances did indeed violate the First Amendment separation of church and state. Said the court: "In effect, the legislature has decreed that in Ocean Grove the church shall be the state and the state shall be the church...