Word: kemp
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...approaches, some help may be on the way. Everyone from builders to bankers to President Bush, who has called the home-buying crunch "among the most important and challenging issues in America today," seems eager to help first-timers catch up with the runaway cost of housing. When Jack Kemp was sworn in this month as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the former Congressman promised grandly, if vaguely, to "help recapture the American dream for first-time home buyers...
Kinder, Gentler Conservatives Dept.: The homeless should be happy to learn that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp has pledged to aggressively enforce the McKinney Act, a measure that would transform unused, federally owned buildings into homeless shelters. Kemp's new-found enthusiasm for the bill is strange, considering that he voted against the act as a member of Congress...
...political spouses to its Tuesday class. Susan Baker says the regular meeting for Cabinet wives will regroup as soon as the Bush Administration is in place. Baker also is host to a women's meeting in her home, which is attended by Marilyn Quayle, among others. Joanne (Mrs. Jack) Kemp leads a similar weekly get-together...
From Quayle to Baker to Kemp to Nunn, big political names have joined Washington's prayer groups. -- European theologians criticize the Pope...
...other side to czardom is ready made for him. That task is to be a highly visible and articulate disturber of the complacent and the comfortable. Already Bennett has been on the phone to enlist the like-minded energy of HUD Secretary-designate Jack Kemp, saying, "You've got public housing, the K mart of drugs. Let's clean...