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...tended to value home sharing for its financial savings while the 70-and-older group prized the service and security. The older people wanted someone else in the home so that they would feel safer as well as get some help with chores. "One woman in her mid-70s, who'd applied for a housemate after her husband died, ended up having six different housemates over several years--all of them foreign students at a nearby university," says Mathews. "She helped them with their English, and they taught her about their culture. Now she feels like she has family...
...stylish transport includes radio, air conditioning, more comfortable seating and large-panel windows. (Though temperatures hovered in the mid-70s yesterday, the driver did not turn on the air conditioning system.) Students may also enjoy somewhat greater carrying capacity-especially important during peak traffic hours around...
...activism that engulfed the University died down by the mid-70s," Jones says. "As a consequence, you didn't have a major campus-wide event or occurrence that you would've witnessed during the five years beforehand...
...acnowledge the fact that there was some degree of tension in this process in the mid-70s is valid," he said. "The overwhelming focus .... should be about the cooperative relationship between Harvard and the tenants...
...takes the cake as the biggest suck-up to ever apply (At least in Fitzsimmons' memory)? One student in the early to mid-70s sent close to 100 letters of recommendation, including one from his orthodontist, who assured the admissions office that everything was okay now, and the applicant now had a wonderful smile. "He showed up at a recruiting session and at the office," Fitzsimmons says. "During the interview, he literally stopped the interviewer and made him listen to a tape of his music," he adds. He played the cello...