Word: renters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Alto's prodding, the investigation of the GSA, which employs 35,000 and spends $5 billion annually as the renter, builder and purchasing agent for the Federal Government, has spread to grand juries and U.S. Attorneys throughout the country, Investigators in Fort Worth, Dallas and El Paso documented $100,000 worth of fraudulent GSA overpayments after just two weeks of auditing last month. In Bayonne, N.J., investigators have discovered a construction contract that was first awarded to an extremely low bidder for just over $1 million and then was upped substantially in a suspicious change of project plans...
...cramp their swinging lifestyle. The policy also makes economic sense to landlords for whom tenants' children can create maintenance problems. But what are young parents to do? Says Dora Ashford, director of the Los Angeles Fair Housing for Children Coalition: "People with children are a desperate class of renter right...
...bookworms are grouped arbitrarily in six main categories: Americana (e.g., H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner), Classics (Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain), Contemporary Fiction (Joseph Wambaugh, Irving Stone), History and War (Alan Moorehead, Hanson Baldwin), Fiction (Louis Auchincloss, F. Scott Fitzgerald) and Travel and Adventure (James Ramsey Ullman, Joshua Slocum). Current best renter of the more than 80 available titles: Walden. B.O.T. pays authors or their estates 10% of its rental fee and calls its service, not immodestly, "the thinking...
When John Marcy left high school he graduated from the civil rights movement to the student anti-war movement. When he graduated from Boston University he moved easily into Cambridge tenant organizing, being a renter in Cambridgeport himself. Now, at 25, he is one of this election's younger and more radical contenders...
...mention of conflict of interest strikes a tender chord with other University vice presidents. "Steve Hall is in charge," Champion said. "He makes recommendations to the Corporation and the Corporation will decide policy. Particularly because I am a renter, I am glad to stay...