Word: nails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company cuts costs at every step, beginning with the concrete slabs on which each home sits. Crews stretching out for four blocks lay foundations for a whole neighborhood. Construction hands then nail frames and panels assembled in company factories to the slabs, and add prebuilt roof sections and wood siding. The least expensive cottages take only 33 days to construct. Conventionally built houses, by contrast, may take up to 36 days. While one of the bedrooms in some models is too small for a double bed, the living rooms and kitchens have vaulted ceilings, giving an impression of spaciousness. Because...
McCue's Third Nail is a paragon in an industry marked by low success rates and corruption. Elsewhere, hypocrisy is often the order--rehabilitators are, even while counseling, users themselves...
...practical experience in the field--he continues to hire ex-addicts. This way, because former users are slowly assimilated back into socially productive roles, drug rehabilitation establishes itself as a valuable service, refuting the common attitude that it is "just a waste of the taxpayers' money." Unlike Third Nail, which is open to anyone with a need, many centers get accredited for Blue Cross and Blue Shield payments, enabling them to charge high weekly fees. Through its Outreach program, the project provides free out-patient drug counseling worth $150,000 in working hours...
...interest, this TC works towards saving drug addicts--a social service many fail to acknowledge or recognize. At Boston's 350th anniversary celebration last year, throngs watched the fireworks and enjoyed cool refreshment by the Charles. Sixteen tons of ice cream. Good humor--a free gift from Project Third Nail...
...good success rate with methadone," drug officials say. Most often measured in terms of a facility's utilization rate, success comes easily for a methodone treatment program. A methodone center tends to create its own demand. "If we were a methadone service," Bill McCue, director of project Third Nail, says, "we'd have lines of people down the block...