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...single-family home. In 1965 the average price of a new house was just $20,000. By 1975 the figure had more than doubled, to $42,600. Last week the Commerce Department reported that in May the price tag on the American Dream rose to a nightmarish $101,000. It climbed by $5,100 just since April...
Because the rural economy is especially unpromising, jobless Peruvians have been migrating to the capital in frightening numbers. A pleasant colonial-style city of 1.5 million inhabitants 20 years ago, Lima has become a nightmarish sprawl of 6.5 million. The city has grown so fast that suburban slum districts housing 500,000 people are not even included on current maps. Almost 40% of the country's 18 million people are now crowded into the capital. Says Senator Manuel Ulloa Ellas, a close adviser to Belaúnde: "For many of these people, there are no jobs, no services...
...Dooley--rather than resting on his laurels at the expense of some of the East's fledgling teams--has charted a nightmarish course this season for the ice women. He has transformed an already difficult schedule into a brutal campaign which matches the Crimson against hockey power-houses game after game...
Cambridge City Councilor Thomas Danehy remembers the day vividly: "I was working in my drugstore, it was about 1:30 when I heard the news. Within five minutes you couldn't put another body in the store because I had pulled out my portable TV--it was almost nightmarish...
Ozal's electoral victory hardly represented a challenge to a regime whose consititution, approved in a landslide referendum last year, has strengthened Evren's presidential powers. Most Turks remain deeply grateful for the 1980 military intervention, which ended a nightmarish period of political terrorism, parliamentary paralysis and economic chaos. For his part, Ozal quickly showed his eagerness to cooperate fully with Evren and the four other senior military officers on the ruling National Security Council. In his first statement to the nation after the vote, Ozal hanked the Turkish armed forces for 'their efforts to establish...