Word: opted
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...owners, however, have been suffering from what critics call "HUD fatigue" - frustration with dealing with government bureaucracy when it comes to getting the government to fork over the subsidies. Dean Chaussee, who has owned and managed properties in suburban Seattle through his Westwood Management since 1975, is waiting to opt out of his Section 8 contract when it expires because of what he says is unfair treatment from HUD. "We sign a contract to provide housing for people who otherwise wouldn't be housed by the private sector," he says. "HUD's job is to pay us for doing...
...historic law a significant change will be under way in the next few years. As a result, building owners who participate in the program - receiving subsidies from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in exchange for taking in lower-income renters - will be able to opt out of those contracts. And many are thinking of doing just that. America's two largest cities, New York and Los Angeles, will be severely affected as will many smaller communities...
...when Kanye went onstage over an hour late, due to an unnecessary collection of lights and glamour.Perhaps someday I will be able to attend this generation’s Woodstock. Existing in the space along the fringe of the crowd, the people whose culture we were trying to co-opt served as a reminder of my romanticized view of music festivals, of the way things could have been. It is there that the Grateful Dead hippies, with their white bushy beards and carefree steps, have been dancing since the first synthesis of LSD. Perhaps I would have been less disillusioned...
...happy by the change. “I logged into my Facebook, and it looked terrible. It looked like a tundra,” he said of the new interface, which is significantly wider and bluer. In the early stages of its launch, Facebook users were able to opt in and out of the new layout. The switch became mandatory and permanent last week.Chief among Bethel’s many complaints was the amount of work he suddenly had to do in order to navigate the Web site. “I had to drag from one corner to another...
...don’t think it should be the case that incoming students who opt for the Core will find any dearth of courses,” said Jeffry A. Frieden, last year’s chair of the Core’s Subcommittee on Quantitative Reasoning...