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...office six days before the first applications were to be given out. Soon the crowd swelled to 200, and the police had to be called in when several people tried to skip to the head of the line. Says Society Hill Developer Ara Hovnanian, a major builder throughout the Northeast: "We've been in the business for 26 years, and we've never seen anything quite like...
...swelling demand is pushing up prices in many places. The median price of existing homes jumped $2,600 in March, to $80,000, up 7.2% from the same month last year. The steepest increase came in the Northeast, where the median price hit $101,300, a 16.7% rise over 1985. Prices are falling in depressed regions like the oil patch. In the Houston area, the median home price dipped about 12% during the past year. One reason: home foreclosures in Houston have reached their highest level in 20 years...
...from Alaska, Australia and Indonesia. Average cost of the new fuel: about $11 per bbl. SDG&E says it is now saving $500,000 to $1 million a month. Analyst Gregory Enholm of the Salomon Brothers investment banking firm estimates that utility rates in the West and the Northeast, where oil-burning facilities are most prevalent, will drop as much as 20% by summer...
...unusual cry was heard last week in the Philippines: "G.I.s come back!" Some 300 bar girls, who usually work in clubs located just outside Clark Air Base, 60 miles northeast of Manila, were protesting to get back their customers. After Filipino strikers blockaded the base's gates on March 21 in a bid for more severance pay, the barmaids found themselves separated from their main source of income. But the women finally took matters into their own hands. A large band of irate bar girls, many dressed in tight-fitting shorts and braless tops, stormed the picket line...
Even though Dartmouth is considered by many to be the best in the Northeast, the Crimson likes its chances for success at the tourney...