Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROPOSITION 1 unthaws the values that forebidding homeownership has kept frozen, providing immediate and substantial benefits to both current tenants and landlords. The tenants who do not wish to buy may still see a better-run building because their landlord, after having sold a few units, will no longer be as financially strapped as before, and because other units, now owner-occupied, will begin to reflect pride of ownership...
OWNING one's own home gives people financial security through saving (paying off the mortage), possible appreciation, income-tax reductions, a better-kept building...and a good old fashioned feeling, called The American Dream...
Although Talenti and Ndosi emit plenty of energy in their performances, it was not as if there was a lack of it in the Saturday performance. The water pipes on the ceiling kept the room at a toasty temperature...
...parents' dedication to others, which kept them on call every day at every hour, that eventually inspired her to pursue a career in politics...
Whatever the literary or theological merits of The Satanic Verses, its commercial success is assured; yet for almost a week, such leading chains as Waldenbooks, B. Dalton and Barnes & Noble kept their remaining copies off the shelves. In New York City the Authors Guild, the PEN American Center and the Writers Guild of America (East) fired off letters of protest to the bookstore chains, criticizing them for caving in to censorship by terrorism...