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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kemp would like to see similar programs at other projects. The catch is that he wants to finance them largely with HUD funds that have been set aside for modernizing the complexes. To pay for the drug war, local housing authorities would have to sacrifice the installation of storm windows, new heating systems and other badly needed improvements. Robert McKay, executive director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, complains of being faced with an "impossible choice between fixing up dwellings or fighting drugs -- and you have to do both." Moreover, housing officials are going to have less...
Others are beside themselves about what is being built in their place. "They're garbage," says architect Kevin Cozen. "These houses look like somebody stood there with a bag of frosting and just splattered it wherever they felt like it." The effect, not surprisingly, is that of a stage set. "I think the Spelling house is a joke," Cozen adds. "It's not a French manor. This is America in 1989. Someone like Aaron Spelling should be helping humanity by having people design things that will move the culture forward...
...step closer to what may become Eastern Europe's first multiparty system. Last week Solidarity backed a preliminary slate of twelve candidates, including a film idol, a schoolteacher and a former political prisoner, to run in the parliamentary elections scheduled for June. If successful, Poland's experiment could set an example to be followed by other reform-minded East bloc countries and prompt a further warming in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...last week. Even as the Dow Jones industrial average surged 72.40 points to a post-crash high of 2409.46, blue- chip firms announced setbacks that ranged from layoffs to plunging profits. Says Perrin Long, who follows the securities industry for Lipper Analytical Services in Manhattan: "A new reality has set...
...first ads for TV sets showed elegantly dressed models watching in posh surroundings, and often contained practical advice. ("Should the room in which you are viewing television be darkened to resemble a movie theater? Answer: Definitely not!") But soon the marketers of TV had a brainstorm: promoting the new device as a way of bringing the family together again. "There is great happiness," exulted an ad for DuMont sets, "in the home where the family is held together by this new common bond -- television." Another promotional piece listed the things that "took the family away from home" -- including baseball, vaudeville...