Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional roles, Americans may better understand that a female can hold a highly competitive job?or drive a truck?without being forced to sacrifice her sexuality or the satisfactions of child rearing. A nation that softens the long and rigid separation of roles for men and women is also less likely to condemn the homosexual and confine him to a netherworld existence...
...personal standard of living. For the first time in his life, he cannot buy a house or rent an apartment that fits both his means and his expectations. He moved out of a $400-a-month, eleven-room house in the capital; he is willing to pay $600 for less space in an area that has commendable schools and is not more than one hour's commuting time away from Manhattan-but cannot find anything suitable. He is also willing to buy a house. "When I tell real estate agents that I can only...
...sale, one eager would-be buyer offered him $500 to be first to bid on it. He sold the house for a large profit. The disillusionment set in after he moved to Chicago and sought a house in the suburbs. "I had to pay much more for less house," he complains...
...Housing is by far the largest expense for most families; when that cost soars, something else in the budget has to give. Most of the 40 million U.S. residents who move each year must now make difficult compromises: they must pay higher prices than they had budgeted, or accept less living space, longer commuting or lower school standards. The problem affects almost everybody-the rich in luxury apartments, the middle class in suburban subdivisions, the poor in festering slums. In order to make bigger down payments, many middle-class families are forced to borrow from relatives. The poor feel...
...wide and up to 60 ft. long-that are built, wired, piped and often decorated on cost-cutting factory assembly lines, then trucked up to 400 miles to a site, swung onto foundations by a crane, and fastened together. Builders claim that the modules are 10% to 25% less expensive than conventional houses...