Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worry over the economy, the TIME-Yankelovich surveys show a remarkable increase this year in the percentage of voters who expect that the economy will get better rather than worse. This, explains Yankelovich, helps those candidates who "have something positive to offer" and hurts those who "articulate discontent" and project "the gloom issue...
...city housing project residents were having the roughest time, because their maintenance men were out. Eleven of the 44 projects were without heat, hot water or both as the city's temperatures dipped to 46° F. on the coldest nights. Sarcastically, one crippled pensioner snarled at two picketing plumbers: "The poor babies, I really feel sorry for them, especially when I'm shaving in cold water. We have to live on $300 a month, and these guys live on $24,000 a year." But not all the citizenry was so truculent. One elderly San Franciscan strolling down...
...Secret Project. Not much of the Hughes Aircraft profit has gone to the medical institute. From 1964 to 1973, Hughes Medical received $21.6 million from the company; in the same period it gave back $8.8 million to Hughes Aircraft as repayment of a loan and spent only $8.8 million for medical research. Until now, the IRS has not compelled it to conform to the 1969 Tax Reform Act, which requires private foundations to disburse a fixed percentage of their assets. In the wake of Hughes' death, the Government may take a much closer look at the medical institute...
Meanwhile, Hollywood will also take a closer look at the departed billionaire. Last week Warner Bros, announced that it would make a movie about Hughes, starring Warren Beatty. The project has been secretly under development for about a year under-what could be a better epitaph?-the code name "Operation Phantom...
...inclusion of housing for the elderly in the proposed project is commendable, there is certainly a need for such housing. Why not go one step further and put the idea of scatter site housing into effect. In such a large, new development it would be relatively easy to include a small low income housing project...