Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that faces us right now is to get this war over in Viet Nam as quickly as we can, and get out from under the burdens that are placed on us in the sacrifice of men as well as the expenditure of dollars over there. I will feel a lot more confident about the whole situation and about the attitude of the American people and their confidence in the future when that is over. But until it is over, I think we are going to have to restrain our appetites for the enlargement of programs and the establishment...
Larrison, who suspects that Fellow Republican Lovellette plans to run against him in 1971, was unmoved. He said that the resolution is not binding and has "no teeth." As for the councilmen, Larrison-who favors legalized prostitution-added, "A lot of them voted yes because they lacked the courage to stand up and show their convictions...
Regardless of age, many (perhaps most) marriages would seem ill-advised if not maniacal, could they be considered dispassionately in advance. Most May-December marriages thus considered look even worse. Yet there is no evidence that they turn out any worse than most unions-and possibly they work a lot better. Older men, for example, are no longer obsessed by their careers, and are much less likely to become obsessed with other young women. They are more indulgent; and besides, with them a woman is much less conscious of her own aging. Above all, the old and young partners...
...bathed in natural light, which pours down a central courtyard and through wide light shafts rising the full height of the nine-story building. It is extraordinarily accessible, with a subway station nearby and even has a concourse running through its ground floor. "It is the nexus of a lot of pedestrian routes in the city," says Architect Noel McKinnell, whose firm, Kallmann, Mc-Kinnell & Knowles, won the competition to design the building as the centerpiece of Boston's 60-acre Government Center...
...them by offering rents that were fairly reasonable by Manhattan standards, as well as three-or four-month rental "concessions." Now there is a desperate housing shortage. While the rental vacancy rate for the nation is 5.4%, it is 1.2% for New York City. The landlords, hardly a charitable lot, can get together fairly easily and exploit the shortage because 250 real estate firms own 80% of the city's 600,000 noncontrolled apartments...