Word: remodeler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...level, the Democratic mayor ran into a little trouble toward the end of his term. Some of his appointees, it seems, took a Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Block Grant program and turned it into a "geared to the greedy, not to the needy" campaign to remodel their friends' homes. They put oak panelling in bedrooms and took bribes from contractors. The indictments--naming 17 men in all--came down two weeks ago. But in this election, Parker says, Reagan doesn't need a scandal to win.CrimsonRobert O. Boorstin...
...euphoric audience at Louisiana State University in mid-September, he recalled that in those days one did not need a driver's license: you drove when Dad thought you were up to it. In an interview two weeks ago, he reminisced about a summer job helping to remodel houses at age 14: "At the end of the week, all the contractor had to do was reach in his pocket and take out the cash to pay me. No auditors, no bookkeeping, no withholding of funds...
...defenses against Soviet chemical warfare. Then by the mid-1980s, the allies intend to complete the program's second stage: expand reserve forces, help the U.S. build up stocks of munitions for U.S. units to be dispatched to Europe in an emergency, deploy more electronic jamming devices and remodel civilian aircraft so that they could be converted quickly to carry troops and weapons...