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Unleashing their pent-up demands and taking advantage of fairly easy mortgage money, millions of people are shopping for houses. In Santa Rosa, Calif., a 90-minute commute north of San Francisco, buyers in June began camping out in sleeping bags on a Thursday night to be first in line Saturday morning when 27 houses in a new subdevelopment went on sale. In the Kendall neighborhood of southwestern Dade County, the last open area reasonably close to Miami, prospective buyers on weekends parade caravan-like in cars and campers through flag-festooned developments...
...overlapping, federal, state and local environmental regulations are the current headache. They are well intentioned and may indeed prevent ecological damage, but they promote inflation. Fairfax County, Va., stopped all building for 18 months while officials drew up a master plan for development; when the moratorium was lifted, pent-up demand sent land prices soaring...
...finally meets the enemy, the duplicitous villain he had expected turns out instead to be an object of pity. Watergate is an obsession for Haldeman, but Mee does not need to linger over those unpleasant details. His anti-Nixon tirade and his meeting with Haldeman have purged his pent-up anger, and he can calmly await the renewal of the republic...
...around the Big Apple loves to hate, it supplies more than just gas, steam and the costliest electricity in the country. Con Ed's softspoken, Wisconsin-bred chairman, Charles Luce, 60, himself says that the big firm also provides ''a tremendous catharsis for the pent-up tensions of the city. If we didn't have a Con Ed, we'd have to invent...
Antinuclear forces-aided by $75,000 in contributions from Folk Singer John Denver-have waged effective campaigns that may carry the antiplant proposals in Oregon and Colorado. But they have been more heavily outs pent -by a ratio of 7 to 1 in Washington, for example-by utilities and other pro-plant forces, which fear that passage of the proposals will effectively halt any future construction of nuclear power facilities...