Word: realtor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classes are enlivened by guest appearances-an insurance agent, realtor, clergyman, marriage counselor and banker. But the students sometimes have firsthand experience of their own. During one lecture on abortions an 18-year-old girl rose to announce that she had had three abortions herself. She was invited to take over the discussion. The final outside expert is a lawyer who explains how to file for divorce. Last year, as an added touch of realism, Allen brought in a recent-and embittered -divorcee to talk about financial problems. "She really gave the kids a jolt," he says. Toward...
Back in 1969, Realtor Philip Long and his wife Susan also invoked the Freedom of Information Act to get IRS reports and manuals for their fight against a claimed tax debt of $38,144. Three years later, a federal judge ruled for the Longs. Two weeks ago, chastened by its initial loss, the Government agreed to a new Long request and turned over statistical summaries of the 2 million audits made each year since 1954. While dredging through their latest haul, the Longs will be seeking to find whether established agency procedures and practice discriminate against small taxpayers...
Bronson takes the law into his own hands mainly as occupational therapy after three freaks invade his New York apartment, murder his wife and sexually abuse his grown daughter, renderIng her hopelessly insane. A weapon of revenge-a Western-style revolver-is provided by the grateful realtor whose development Bronson saved. A pressing, almost daily need to use it is supplied by British Director Winner and West Coast Writer Mayes, who offer a vision of New York City existence based less on firsthand experience than on old Johnny Carson-Dick Cavett monologues about getting home from the studio. Everywhere Bronson...
...questionable connections of many psychic researchers, in addition to the paucity of objectively verifiable results in their work, has made it difficult to raise funds for research; parapsychologists barely squeak by with money from a few foundations and gifts and encouragement from occasional philanthropists like Stewart Mott and Manhattan Realtor John Tishman. There is only one academic chair on parapsychology in the U.S., at the University of Virginia. Should the findings prove depressingly negative, it is unlikely that academies or foundations would encourage more chairs, or promote further psychic investigations...
...Down payments have at least doubled in the past few months; 40% is now common in some parts of the country. Worst of all, at some S and Ls and savings banks, the prime sources of residential mortgage money, new loans are unavailable on any terms whatever. Laments Boston Realtor Jack Conway: "This is the granddaddy of all mortgage droughts...