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Nevertheless the department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which partly regulates the complex and subsidizes the rents of some of its low-income residents, has recently begun to test mold found in more than one-third of the complex’s apartments, according to residents...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Charlesview Tenants Want Role in Deal | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...Consider debt consolidation. If you have home equity, you may be able to refinance and simultaneously pull out cash. Or you might open a home-equity line of credit (HELOC) at a low interest rate. One-third of HELOCs, in fact, are now used for debt consolidation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop Calling Me! | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...biggest minority group in the U.S., Latinos (13%) boast a collective disposable income of $450 billion a year, with much of that money going toward food. Latinos visit grocery stores an average of 4.4 times a week--twice as often as non-Latinos--and Latino households spend one-third more on groceries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh from The Border | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...council also approved a resolution encouraging the Freshman Dean’s Office to increase funding for the Prefect Program by almost one-third, and a position paper stating that University Health Services should run a website to provide more information to students on mental health...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Allocates Funds to Walkout | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...through St. Paul's Church in London's Covent Garden late last month. The music was "a singing strike" by choristers from the English National Opera (ENO), which faces €1.75 million in debt and whose management has proposed that its core group of 60 singers be reduced by one-third. In response, the choristers pulled out of a scheduled performance of Berlioz's The Capture of Troy, and instead came to St. Paul's Church to perform Verdi's Requiem. Before the performance David Dyer, a tenor, told the packed church that the proposed changes amounted to "cultural vandalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Have All The Patrons Gone? | 3/9/2003 | See Source »

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