Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason why so much housing is in poor shape today is that most of the money tenants pay for rent isn't spent on maintaining and improving the apartment. Instead, it goes to pay principal and interest on the landlord's mortgage, the landlord's property tax bill, etc. In fact, about 65 cents of every rent dollar you pay is spent on things that have nothing to do with keeping your apartment in good condition (mostly mortgage and taxes...
...HEADED for the seawall, now totally black and foggy. A dark black shape moved in the darkness against the wall. "Francois?" But it was an old man, perhaps from the next town, on his way home by the shortest route. "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur, avez-vous vu un petit homme bossu qui courait... have you seen a little hunchback running along the wall?" The man stumbled back into the dark, changing his path a little--"Non, non, non..." --and vanished...
After years of incremental progress in token minority admissions, colleges began full-scale programs to bring minority enrollment to the level in the overall population. Whether rigid or merely implicit, these programs took the shape of a quota system for minority admissions. This practice has provoked an outcry of "reverse discrimination" from whites who say blacks and other minorities don't have to work as hard to get into college...
...income tax laws and to provide federal financing for political campaigns. A trade bill is pending to give the President the power to negotiate worldwide agreements easing the flow of goods. There is rising sentiment for national health insurance. And up ahead is another fight over the size and shape of the military budget...
While oilmen and Congressmen were debating the subject of profits, the energy crisis continued to shape the destinies of diplomats and bureaucrats, motorists and householders. Among last week's major developments...