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...used his position as publisher of dozensof newspapers to further awareness of socialproblems. In one eight-part series of editorialsin the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, Harrison called fora minimum housing code in order to get urbanrenewal funds for low-cost minority housing. Theseries won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1965 andresulted in the construction of more than 8,000new housing units in the city after the code waspassed...
...ambitious effort to improve the lives of the nation's impoverished black majority. Naidoo reports progress-196,000 new houses are in the pipeline-but he acknowledges that results have been slow. Mandela repeatedly demonstrates his grasp of practical details. For example, he advises Naidoo to look into a low-cost housing scheme emphasizing self-reliance that he recently observed in Namibia...
...though a low-cost high profit movie likeForrest Gump would seem to be a perfectcase study for the school, one hopes that thisstory will be a bit shorter in the telling...
...assist lawyers in such actions, L.D.I. offers an impressive range of free and low-cost services. It provides lawyers with professional quality ads and brochures to attract clients. It claims to have 500 expert witnesses on call to testify about everything from retained fetal parts-one type of abortion malpractice-to "postabortion trauma,'' a form of emotional harm that L.D.I. lawsuits hope to establish in case law. Life Dynamics also offers the services of 8,000 "Spies for Life"-moles who use a variety of methods to collect information about abortion clinics. L.D.I. has a computer data base on abortion...
Then there is the house party: because federal election law allows donors to hold receptions at their homes for a candidate (and exempts the cost of food and wine from the $1,000-a-person limit), living rooms are increasingly the low-cost venue of choice. Donors invite anywhere from 25 to 50 friends and their spouses over for cocktails, with an eye to raising $1,000 from each. The total take for such an event could reach $100,000-and at no cost to the campaign. After the federal matching funds kick in, the total grows...