Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a fortune of well over $1 million, Ronald and Nancy Reagan live comfortably in an elegantly furnished, five-bedroom ranch-style house in Pacific Palisades. In the living room, the grand piano is covered with mementos of show business days, photographs of Old Friends Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Edgar Bergen. On the end tables are small glass dishes filled with the jelly beans that became his trademark as Governor. They are intended for guests. To keep down his weight, he rarely eats them now. Reagan is dressed casually, in slacks, a blue V-neck sweater and velvet slippers...
Surrounded by well-wishers in a noisy locker-room, Cleary sported a wide, toothy grin as he commended the newcomers for overcoming initial jitters...
...Kenya's chief executive, Arap Moi faces many unsolved problems. Housing is poor: in some cities, families crowd into a single room with no toilet or kitchen and pay $60 a month for the privilege. Jobs are scarce, inflation is running at 11%, and Kenya's export earnings are down as a result of a drastic drop in world prices for coffee and tea over the past two years. At the same time, Kenya's population is expected to double by the end of the century, which may make it impossible to raise living standards...
...Baird & Warner real estate firm reckons that October condo sales were 6% ahead of the same month last year, but prices have eased from an average of $93,000 in 1978 to about $85,000 today. In New York City, both demand and prices remain high, and luxury four-room apartments are selling for an average of $ 160,000, vs. $ 100,000 a year...
...ends up caring only for the peripheral characters. Jason's wife (Holly Palance) seems to defrost a room when she enters it- in this case, Douglas W. Schmidt's handsomely designed town-house study. Phoebe's husband (Greg Mullavey) is decent, amusing and sweet. But who admires a frame without a picture...