Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government?but chiefly local?that balloon builders' costs. A Rutgers University study of 2,000 builders concluded that "excessive" regulation of all kinds now accounts for $9,844, or almost 20%, of the price of a home that sells for $50,000. Many communities specify not only minimum lot sizes but also minimum house sizes; that is a sure way to keep out the lower income groups...
...town?and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt and 1˝ inches of topping and Belgian block curbing." The result of these and other requirements is that an $8,000 lot may cost another $8,000 to develop, v. $4,000 six years ago. Says Schoeck: "The cost had doubled before the house went...
...offered a few economic answers no more radical than Adam Smith's. We have a reasonably free society. People, including people who play first base, are privileged to offer their skills to the highest bidder. Personally, I prefer this to either monopoly sport or socialized sport. A lot I knew, said a radio listener in Dallas. The goddam greedy athletes were ruining the game...
...muscle behind the human rights drive he once promised by refusing all aid to the Chilean junta--surely one of the worst offenders. A different U.S. president felt no qualms about ending financial support to a peacefully-elected Chilean government, whose goal was only to improve the lot of its people. It is too bad Carter does not seem to feel he can go as far in the case of the junta, whose goals are far more questionable...
...BEST SPORTS MOVIE I ever saw was Pride of the Yankees, the 1942 tribute to Lou Gehrig featuring Gary Cooper as the ill-fated Yankee great. It was hokey and soapy, almost completely unrelated to the realities of major league sports, but it was still a lot of fun. That, in the long run, has to be the main criterion for judging sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people...