Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Porn's big profits ensure that Hurlbut will never lack for work. The station wagon is now deep in the piney woods northeast of the city as he searches vainly for the site of another nude bar, one that he has chased from two other prospective locations. "We'll get him sooner or later," he chuckles. On the drive home, he wheels up to a fading stucco relic aside the four-lane. Shut down long ago, the nude club's blue canopy still flaps amid the weeds and litter, and a garish neon sign towers skyward. "Twenty warrants for prostitution...
...meet the crush. But high real estate and development costs kept the number of new courses to 211 last year. On average, once the land is bought, it takes $4 million to $5 million more to build a course. Shortages are most severe in Southern California and in the Northeast. Most golf-course development over the past few years has been tied to residential communities, where well-maintained links can double the value of nearby homes...
...properties are hitting a real estate market that is generally far weaker than during the go-go days of the 1970s and early 1980s. The overbuilding of offices and condos has produced a huge surplus of such structures all across the Sunbelt, and some excess properties even in Northeast states like Massachusetts and Connecticut. "What you're dealing with is the aftermath of , a massive speculative excess. It tends to drive down the value of all real estate," says Austin-based banking analyst Alex Sheshunoff. To make matters worse, mortgage rates have risen a full percentage point in the past...
...proves that the Crimson can compete with and even beat the best teams in the northeast...
...shame that John Larew was disappointed by his visit to my alma mater, Duke University--if he was indeed disappointed. He apparently had hoped that the addition of hundreds of bright youngsters from New York and the rest of the Northeast would provide a pocket of tolerance in the "cultural desert of central North Carolina." Instead, he found white and Black students not living together or associating much with each other, and heard some bigoted remarks from members of (evidently only one) fraternity. The outraged Mr. Larew then wrote an article in The Crimson explaining why he is glad...