Word: price
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Initially, Grove Property Trust and the City of Cambridge had a verbal agreement that Grove would keep all the affordable units in exchange for a $2.3 million low-interest loan from the city, representing the difference between the market rent price and the affordable-housing price...
However, in mid-December, after presenting the proposal to their board of trustees, Grove told Cambridge that the deal was unacceptable, angering the councillors-who are considering seizing the property from Grove in exchange for the market price...
Model railroaders argued, among other things, that if their trains doubled in price, more kids would turn to lives of drugs and crime. Other train enthusiasts, including Davis, wrote letters: "I fail to see any relationship between model-railroad equipment and bananas." Trains got dropped...
Other interests eagerly crashed the party, seeing the banana dispute as a chance to settle old scores. U.S. pork producers, suffering through a severe price slump, sought to block the import of Italian hams like prosciutto. "The E.U. has closed off much of its market to us," reasoned Nick Giordano, a lawyer at the National Pork Producers Council. "We're looking for reciprocity, and one way to get it is nicking them on bananas." The council got pork added to the hit list. The hog farmers pushed to nail Dutch and Danish ham producers. But because those two countries...
...shop for online last holiday season? Books, music, software and toys ranked among the most popular choices. But the surprise favorites were online greeting cards from Blue Mountain Arts, which got more than 12 million visitors in December. The hundreds of animated cards are tempting, and so is the price: free...