Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attraction of co-ops and condos is simple: they offer the tax and investment advantages of home ownership, but usually for less money. Their appeal is strong among retired people squeezed by rising rents, young married couples and middle-income suburbanites stunned by fuel costs. "Going condo or coop" has become a buzz phrase in real estate, as San Francisco apartment buildings, Florida motels, and even a renovated Brooklyn church and a convent have become condominium or co-op flats...
...large corporations. It offers a mix of standard liberal stands, such as support of the Equal Rights Amendment and solar energy, and positions the Democratic Party doesn't quite have the nerve to debate, such as public control of the energy industries and experiments in worker or community ownership of factories...
...American transition," says Don Rose, a Citizens Party organizer and the political strategist behind Chicago Democrat Jane Byrne's mayoral upset. The party filed a statement with the Federal Election Commission, laying out a gentle Party line for the transition: "There is nothing wrong with profit, or with private ownership. What is wrong is when private interest, and not the public good, determines how we live. That is what must be changed, and that is the issue the two major American parties can not and will not face...
...That is another of the great myths. First of all this so called ownership is a 99 year lease. But more importantly, since the enactment of this law over two years ago, only one lease has in fact been granted...
...debate, both Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman threatened to resign. The deeply divided Cabinet voted down Sharon's proposal, but approved a "compromise" to expand seven existing Israeli settlements by expropriating 1,000 acres of publicly held Arab land (that is, land in which proof of private ownership does not exist). That was not enough for the nationalistic Gush Emunim, which fanned out over the West Bank and set up 35 to 40 squatters' settlements in protest. Israeli troops evicted them and tore down their tents. But the Cabinet's move to expand the seven settlements...