Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...income housing have disappeared since 1980 through a brutal combination of market forces and government indifference. Tenements that housed the disadvantaged have been razed or renovated to make way for pricey apartments and high-rise office buildings. According to a 1986 congressional report, in the past decade the nation has lost half its single-room-occupancy hotels, long the housing of last resort for the poor. In New York City, tax-abatement policies of the early 1980s encouraged private developers to turn SRO buildings into luxury condominiums. The number of New York apartments renting for $300 a month or less...
...next President and to the American people to decide how high a priority housing of the dispossessed deserves. In considering the cost, the President should keep in mind that the $7.5 billion the Federal Government will spend for low-cost housing this year is meager compared with the nation's biggest housing subsidy: more than $30 billion in a mortgage-interest tax deduction goes to 58.5 million private homeowners, including the very wealthy...
Inside a crowded courtroom in Jerusalem, a rapt audience sat hushed as the nation's highest judges wrestled with an explosive question: Is Rabbi Meir Kahane simply too fanatical to run in Israel's Nov. 1 election? Outside, dozens of the American-born rabbi's supporters bellowed their own verdict, waving banners emblazoned with Kahane's provocative trademark, a clenched fist. Starry-eyed disciples strained to touch the man who vows to expel every last Arab from both Israel and the occupied territories. Exclaimed one young follower: "Next month we shall decide once and for all how to deal with...
...nation is no longer moated -- economically, militarily -- by the Atlantic and Pacific. As Viet Nam instructed, what America touches does not necessarily become sacred -- an end of the Wilsonian illusion. America, which once cherished the conviction that God had endowed its national idea, began feeling lost in what might be called the Brownian motions of history -- Brownian movement being the term for molecules that fly about with no discernible pattern or reason. The American pre-eminence in manufacturing is gone. A thousand hypodermic needles are punching through the nation's borders...
...Fate of an Ally, William Shawcross does not allow the reader to forget that Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, was a pathetic symbol of a corrupt and repressive regime. His fate was to be thrust, ill-suited by temperament or training, into the leadership of a nation whose strategic geography and petroleum resources dictated a major role in the 20th century. Publicly he professed a grand vision, a White Revolution that would modernize his nation. Privately he played the Oriental potentate, surrounded by toadies, pimps and the kitschy trappings of new wealth...