Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Supply of apartments is scarce partly because builders ran out of money during the 1973-75 recession. Overall U.S. apartment building is down 60% from 1972, to 415,000 units, nowhere near the 1 million apartments experts say are needed. Developers' costs for land, labor and maintenance have gone up far faster than rents. Result: apartments are being converted into owner-occupied condominiums, thus removing them from the rental market, or condominiums are being built and sold at high prices to realize a quick return on investment. Says Howard Ruby, chairman of R. & B. Development Co. in Los Angeles...
While the bear and the duck and the fox and assorted other animals ran around wondering who was going to stay around for a long time and who should do what to whom and why, the sheep went on their merry, sheep like way. Some of the sheep lived up by the cliff, and some lived down by the river, and the lambs of the flock lived in the big green yard. Each year thousands of lambs tried to get into Vard only to be told that there was just so much pasture land to graze on and they would...
...long time, and besides, the owls had already spoken. And the sheep milled about and kept baaaaing angrily and burned the grass in effigy, and suddenly Derek the Duck waddled out of the pond and headed for the holy oak in the meadow. And the sheep ran around the duck and asked him to talk about why the Owls hadn't listened to them, but he wouldn't say anything. He just kept waddling towards the holy oak, surrounded by four bulldogs, and Archie the badger, John the fox, and Roso the bear...
This made the United Flock very mad, and they ran around the yard bleating loudly, and lit the grass on fire, and took over the holy oak and the duck pond and Roso the bear's lair and Archie the badger's house and John the fox's den and the nests of the council of owls, and fired all the goats, and told the sheep they could have hot apples again and they could eat whatever kind of food they wanted and could live wherever they wanted to. Then the United Flock sold the Aparkside rocks, and declared Vard...
Saturday Night Fever. Since a major national magazine recently ran a cover piece on the Vietnamization of Hollywood, maybe a free-lancing stargazer somewhere will write something on the Italianization of its box office idols. John Travolta's disco-dancing Tony has joined Sylvester Stallone's Rocky as one of America's favorite silver screen heroes, and the similarities between the two films do not end there. There is the same low-budget feel to "Saturday Night Fever"--the obscure director, in this case a fellow named John Badham who seems bent on dazzling his audiences with bizarre camera angles...