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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money is allowing Just-A-Start Corp., a local non-profit organization, to purchase a 273-unit former expiring-use apartment building on Rindge Avenue...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: City Faces Shortage of Affordable Housing | 2/12/1997 | See Source »

Advocates of low-income housing also have proposed a new 1.5 percent fee on all sales of residential property and a major bond authorization, in order to fund the non-profit purchase of former rent-controlled buildings...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: City Faces Shortage of Affordable Housing | 2/12/1997 | See Source »

...says. "They butchered him on the stand." Found guilty of theft--despite the fact that both the ideas and notebooks were his--Taborsky was given a year's suspended sentence, a year under house arrest and 15 years' probation. And, the judge ordained, he was forbidden to use or profit from his notes or his invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLECTUAL CHAIN GANG | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...American Graffiti's unexpected success to renegotiate his contract with Fox for directing Star Wars--not for more money but for exclusive rights to sequels and licensing, evidence that he must have had some faith in the movie. And since licensing in the mid-'70s wasn't the huge profit center for studios it is today--Star Wars helped create that too--Lucas' deal was arguably even more farsighted than the resulting film. Today he is as much a businessman as he is a filmmaker: his shrewd skill in reinvesting his profits (among other things, he owns Industrial Light & Magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FORCE IS BACK | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan movies, and as a specialty, Westfall says, "Jiggs would always grin with his upper lip above his mouth.'' In retirement, Jiggs has become an artist--a simian Grandpa Moses--and sales of his paintings are to fund the Cheeta Project, a non-profit foundation that will aid other chimps and keep Jiggs on his daily diet of fruit, Purina Monkey Chow and the occasional Oreo as a treat. Tarzan's tree house was never like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 10, 1997 | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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