Word: realtor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Commenting on the University's acquisitions in the Square, local realtor Jean LeVaux, president of LeVaux Real Estate, says "the developers looking for property to develop are upset because [these parcels] are no longer open to the highest bidder. The general public feels shut out. And realtors lose out because these properties are automatically removed from the public domain...
...Steelers had won the Super Bowl. "We've been the best-kept secret in the world," said Mayor Richard Caliguiri, "and now the secret is out." But in the Yuba City area (pop. 109,000), a farming center 40 miles north of Sacramento, residents were mystified. Said Realtor Bill Meagher: "Our quality of living is excellent. Somebody's got their wires crossed...
Despite the rapid Thursday afternoon recovery, the low point of the swinging pendulum cut off many a speculative head. Roaring was the business done by downtown speakeasies. Wild were the rumors of ruin and suicide. In Manhattan, one Abraham Germansky, realtor, was last seen tearing ticker tape. In Seattle, one Arthur Bathstein, finance company secretary, shot himself. Estimates of the number of margineers closed out varies from 20% to 70%. During the first three hours of Thursday stock valuations shrank about $11,250,000,000, recovered all but $3,000,000,000 before trading closed. Brokers met at Hornblower & Weeks...
...time, Stutman regarded his letter as a routine move, but some Vermonters thought otherwise. Said White River Junction Realtor Chas Baker: "Just about anybody who walks through my doors fits at least one of the profile's criteria." An editorial in the Rutland, Vt, Herald sharply criticized the DEA request, using the headline REALTORS AS NARCS. Some residents even complained to the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, whose executive director, Scott Skinner, found that the DEA profile "smacks of Big Brotherism...
...disaster movie called Firestarter. With labor costs skyrocketing, it is cheaper to burn an existing structure than to build a set. But the Hollywood arsonists had not counted on a having their job made so easy. "Everybody has dollar signs in their eyes," says Lillian Gates, a Grand Rapids Realtor. There are even people so desperate to sell that they are willing to see their homes go up in flames. One woman owner of a colonial manse in Holland, 25 miles west of Grand Rapids, plans to build a new home if her offer is accepted, explaining...